Your morning coffee may be more than a half million years old
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April 15, 2024 12:00 PM
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN
AP Science Writer
That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old.
Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to scientists as Coffea arabica and to coffee lovers simply as “arabica.”
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