Everyone Was Wrong About Avocados - Including Us

The video debunks the myth that giant ground sloths were responsible for the spread of avocados. It traces the origin of this myth to speculative papers from the 1980s and highlights the lack of evidence supporting it. Instead, the video explains that humans in Mesoamerica played a significant role in cultivating avocados, leading to the larger pits we see today. The video concludes by emphasizing the importance of human influence in the domestication and spread of avocados, rather than attributing it to extinct animals.

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