Selection

Plant domestication is one of the oldest practices of civilized people. Only in few places on Earth has this taken place. One is Mexico. To this day this process continues. I believe that the people of Mexico has insight on the ways of Nature.

Norman Borlaug, started the modern era of this in Mexico.What I write about here is: What to expect of concepts on central tendency?

I expect that Mexicans without western school education have conceptions of central tendency.

To select corn with bigger heads the experts on hand had to select the proper seed to get, during a future harvest bigger corn heads.

It must be possible to engage the descendents of these experts to teach us: How do they select?