Potatoes, sex and heredity
Sir Francis Drake in 1580 (At least some people say so)Assured his name eternal fame by finding the potato.Old song I learnt at school Actually Drake didn’t find the potato at all. Peruvians had been cultivating potatoes in the Andes for thousands of years before Europeans turned up and took some home. And the Spanish certainly beat Drake to it, sometime in the late 1500s. Be that as it may, the humble spud certainly changed the world, as you can read in this book. And, while the potato changed the human world, humans also changed the…