Pre-Columbian Genetics and Biotechnology

For 3.5 billion years, life on Earth has been evolving. In this evolutionary process, plants and animals have naturally undergone genetic changes through the mechanisms of inheritance and genetic variation. Homo sapiens, seeking to satisfy their primary needs, especially for food, have been involved in evolution for 9,000 to 10,000 years and have created new genotypes of animals and plants through domestication. The Andean Sapiens with much creativity and amazing ingenuity began to use genetics and biotechnology in the early stages of the Holocene and created more than 150 cultivated plants and 5 domesticated animals. They also used biotechnology for plant propagation and food preservation.