Apples

I'm in the library reading an article in the Jan-Feb issue of The
American Scientist by B. E. Juniper, Plant Scientist at Oxford: The
Mysterious Origin of the Sweet Apple, summarizing a 2006 book by
Juniper and D. J. Mabberley The Story of the Apple (Timber Press).
He believes the common apple developed in the Tien Shan, and was
spread with the domestication of horses. "In the guts of both horse
and donkey, directed by human travelers, the apple pip moved west. The
sharp hooves of these animals unwittingly planted the aple pips at
every oasis." It's not clear to me whether he is discounting
purposeful transport of a human food.
Anyway, their work looks like something to be considered by anyone
concerned with the jabloko-malum problem.
Dan