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minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoMint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoCounterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies. From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBut I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.
Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
Counterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies.
From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.
But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.