Carrots are a bad example, as they have also improved dramatically via innovation: cultivation and breeding. A carrot like those grown a millennium ago are bare

Carrots are a bad example, as they have also improved dramatically via innovation: cultivation and breeding. A carrot like those grown a millennium ago are barely recognizable compared to the beautiful orange giants we can all get at the grocery store for a few cents apiece. Heck, the entire species was only domesticated 1100 years ago. https://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html https://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html