Crop science is typically seen as the domestication of scrawny wild species to turn them into plump, useful food machines, a testament to human will and ingenuity. But Baluška objects to it being true “domestication” at all. “Domestication would be when one partner has more influence than the other one. But there is no evidence for this,” he says. “A better word would be coevolution. We are changing them, but they are changing us.”
