What did fruits and vegetables look like hundreds of years ago?

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A plant biologist and an art historian walk into a museum. They stand in front of a 17th-century Flemish still-life for a while. The monkey looks pretty accurate, as far as they can tell, but they can’t recognize any of the fruits the monkey is stealing. So, they wonder, was the painter just a really bad artist? Or…

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Aimee Levitt on The Takeout, shared by Riley MacLeod to Kotaku

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