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minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up97·2年前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.
minus-squaremods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2年前Literally no quality will guarantee a species survival in the modern world more than being delicious to humans.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2年前But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.
minus-squareAhismaMiasma@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2年前Mint would take over continents if humans left. Ask any gardener.
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.
Literally no quality will guarantee a species survival in the modern world more than being delicious to humans.
But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.
Mint would take over continents if humans left. Ask any gardener.