Agricultural scientist: Wild apples are considerably smaller than cultivated apples found in supermarkets  In one particular region, archaeologists have looked for remains of cultivated apples dating from 5, 000 years ago, around the time people first started cultivating fruit  But the only remains of apples that archaeologists have found from this period are from fruits the same size as the wild apples native to the region
So apples were probably not cultivated in this region 5, 000 years ago
fails to consider that plants that have been cultivated for only a short time may tend to resemble their wild counterparts much more closely than plants that have been cultivated for a long time