From: tgpedersen
Message: 50920
Date: 2007-12-16
>If that story were true, we'd have to conclude that the word was a
> I'll copy a posting I did last January. I still have only read
> the article -- I haven't seen the book:
> I'm 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).
> They believe 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 apple pips
> at every oasis." It's not clear to me whether they discount
> purposeful transport of a human food.
> Anyway, their work looks like something to be considered by
> anyone concerned with the jabloko-malum problem.