Maybe, but they’re also fucked if we disappear. Corn as we know it is so far removed from the native plant that it can’t spread itself around without us.
Plants, um, find a way. Plants will edit their own DNA in response to stress. They will have offspring with themselves or very distantly related plants. If you can get humans to plant you on six continents, in abominable number, then if humans disappear you find a way.
Look at hot peppers. Task failed successfully.
Is it possible they evolved to taste delicious, but give explosive diarrhea sending the seeds everywhere?
I think that was just task failed
I mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.
huh, didn’t think of that. Thanks for a new perspective!
A generally good evolutionary strategy is to be useful to humans.
Maybe, but they’re also fucked if we disappear. Corn as we know it is so far removed from the native plant that it can’t spread itself around without us.
Plants, um, find a way. Plants will edit their own DNA in response to stress. They will have offspring with themselves or very distantly related plants. If you can get humans to plant you on six continents, in abominable number, then if humans disappear you find a way.