Comment on Plant Protection
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks agoI mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.
Comment on Plant Protection
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks agoI mean, given that humans now cultivate them en masse they are succeeding given that the task is to reproduce.
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
huh, didn’t think of that. Thanks for a new perspective!
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A generally good evolutionary strategy is to be useful to humans.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
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.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.