• aname@lemmy.one
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    9 months ago

    In fact, humans started cultivating mint and chili, hence it worked

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      9 months ago

      There are billions of cows, chickens, etc. in the world. Purely by numbers, those species are incredibly successful. Yet, If not for humans finding them tasty and easy to manage, we would not have bred them to this degree and they wouldn’t have reached this degree of success. Somehow, against all odds, being tasty/something we want to eat has somehow become an incredibly valuable and successful adaptation.

      Evolution is absolutely wild, and this really drives home the fact that evolution isn’t about the individual’s likelihood of survival, but their likelihood of reproduction.

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        9 months ago

        Well, now it has. But uhhh, rest in pieces to all those species that were tasty ,but too much of a hassle

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        9 months ago

        Didnt work so well for the mammoth and Aurochs. I guess you have to be a manageable size.