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.
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 days ago
A generally good evolutionary strategy is to be useful to humans.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days 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 4 days 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.