Some things about corn (also known as maize) By Seamus O'Sparks on September 28, 2016 — 1 min read Some things about corn (also known as maize): Maize was engineered from teosinte between 7,500 and 12,000 years ago in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico. An influential 2002 study by Matsuoka et al. has demonstrated that, rather than the multiple independent domestications model, all maize arose from a single domestication in southern Mexico about 9,000... More