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Why haven't we developed large rice? (lemmy.eco.br)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Rice is very small. Wouldn't it make more sense if each grain was like 8 oz? Then you'd only have to eat a couple rice

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Woah I had no idea...I always just assumed that the size of the grains decreased proportionally with the retreat of the polar rice caps at the end of the last rice age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Indeed, but a larger factor was the plate tectonics which over the millennia become smaller and more fragmented, resulting in smaller plates and reduced food portion sizes.