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Hugh Iltis
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“The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues.”
Hugh Iltis (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The classification of biodiversity is the job of taxonomists who, born as packrats and inspired by a compulsion to explore and collect the world's biological riches, will risk life and limb to solve the great puzzles of biogeography, ethnobotany, and evolution.”
Hugh Iltis (1925–2016) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1988) (quote from p. 98)
“Current evidence suggests that teosinte was first tended for its green ears and sugary pith by hunter-gatherers as an occasional rainy-season food in small “garden” populations away from its homeland, and not for its abundant grain-containing, hard fruitcases, which easily mass-collected but useless as food, are as yet unknown from the archeological record. A rare grain-liberating teosinte mutation (probably expressed in only one “founder” plant, a mazoid “Eve”), which exposed the encased grain for easy harvest, was soon recognized as useful, collected and planted (or self-planted). Thus maize was started on its way to a unique horticultural domestication that is not comparable to that of the temperate Old World mass-selected agricultural grains.”
Hugh Iltis (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source