EEB202H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anthropomorphism, Tulip Mania, Futures Exchange
17 Jan 2018
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The activity of plants is often invisible to the human eye. We can easily anthropomorphise with animals, but not so much with plants. We take flowers as decorative ex: tulips in holland in the 1600s: tulips were first domesticated in turkey in the 1500s. They used to be slender and pointy in the tip; different than we know it now. It takes 7 years to grow from seed; no guarantee it will look like it"s parent. The turks began selecting tulips with particular qualities; they were highly value, with bulbs valued in gold. (bulbs are how you grow tulips; you cannot store the bulbs). Constantinople from the austrian hapsburgs claims to have sent the first tulip bulbs to europe shortly after arriving in turkey. "tulip" is a corruption of the turkish word for "turban" in the 17th century, "tulipmania" spread across europe.
