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Stalking Wild Maize: Taxonomy, Plant Exploration, and the Search for Corn’s Origins in South America

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By Helen Anne, Helen Curry, “The origin, Its Relatives
| mit.edu
In 1941, the ethnobotanist Hugh Cutler and his wife, Marian, set sail from New York City on the S.S. Uruguay, a passenger ship bound for Rio de Janeiro. The vicissitudes of the war in Europe pressed upon its travelers. Everyone on board was there “by necessity” according to Marian, including a corps of sailors bound for war work on whaling ships.
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