Curiosity And Innovation In Ivan Van Sertima's They Came Before Columbus

In the book, They Came before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima, he makes it clear that it is no easy task to just transplant a plant from one geographical location to another. This being said, he makes an inference about American cottons African descent. People are usually quick to assume that the African people were uncivilized and could not communicate effectively; we can now see that this was not the case. This information is significant because it proves that people were traveling across the waters long before we thought they were. People were not staying in one place and that goes to show the importance of curiosity and innovation. This is significant to Botany as a science because as plants are transplanted from one place to another, they