Le manioc pourrait être une culture idéale, mais il présente un inconvénient : son potentiel toxique. Heureusement, depuis des millénaires, l’ingéniosité humaine l’a rendu comestible.
- Associate professor, University of California, Merced
As muitas vantagens da mandioca parecem fazer dela a cultura ideal, exceto por uma desvantagem: ela é altamente venenosa. A engenhosidade humana tornou a mandioca comestível por milênios.
Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.
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If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
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