StarTalk Live! Evolution with Richard Dawkins (Part 2)
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The Downsides of Genetic Control
Richard Washington's ancestor commanded British forces in the American Revolutionary War. George Washington's bread wheat took pollen from one wheat stock and shook it onto the eggs, the ova of another one to try hybridized wheat. That is within a species. But when people take jeans from a fish that is real good in cold water and put it in tomatoes to try to get the tomatoes to be real good on cold days, that's kind of crossing a line.
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