To deter predators...

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• BonerMan@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean its working, every plant useful to humans is being given the right to stay with us.

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  • someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, at least until we meet our eventual demise by hyper-abusing our environment, yeah…

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    • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mint is a pretty sturdy plant, it can grow in a variety of climates and even get a bit invasive at times. Among the domesticated plants, it might be one of those with the best chance to still strive after humans disappear.

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    • BonerMan@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Peppermint can be farmed indoors as well.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is the correct answer.

    Life is programmed to make more of itself. Successful life means more successful reproduction and numbers.

    Just because we consume that life doesn’t mean that it failed in any way; quite the opposite, if we propagate that life because we find it desirable for some reason that life has become more successful than its competitors.

    Everything from apple trees to cattle have become incredibly successful thanks to humans’ desire for them and being the benefactors of their propagation. They are the winners in a backhanded sort of way.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Chickens are the perfect creature, evollutionally speaking

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Had an armchair hypothesis last night. Yeast makes alcohol, and we basically domesticated it on accident. Beer/wine making goes back thousands of years, and we’re in a symbiotic relationship with it.

    That part is pretty well established science, but the the hypothesis goes that alcohol reduces human inhibitions, which makes us fuck more, which means more humans who want to continue making beer and wine with the secret helper, yeast.

    But maybe that’s not right and verging on evo psych territory of a hypothesis that has no strong evidence beyond fitting some known facts.

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• oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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• iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe make it toxic, add some nicotine?

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  • DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Predators: nooooo don’t add nicotine! Please DO not add nicotine!

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fuck it.

  Send the mushrooms. Send the fugu. Send the rotting fruits and the poisonous leafs. Send it all.

  That’ll get ‘em.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the peppers that troll the fuck out of your temperature receptors?

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    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Only if the oysters share the load.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, mint’s cousin catnip: “lol cats go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

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• pinkystew@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It bothers me how many people think that evolutionary traits are in any way chosen or designed for a specific purpose.

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same here. Evolution doesn’t work that way. It’s basically the opposite. Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Or sometimes, it pushes the species into a very narrow niche where its survival is ensured as long as the current extremely precarious situation they find themselves in doesn’t change.

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    • kevin@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Species don’t evolve to solve a problem, they evolve randomly and sometimes that solves a problem for them. Eh… they mutate randomly, and then selection acts. If there is variation that solves a problem, selection will promote that variation.

      Evolution is very much not random, it is a direct consequence of variation and selection. This does not mean that they evolve to solve problems, but problems often drive evolution.

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    • pinkystew@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My God thank you

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Selected through continued survival and reproduction. Maybe a more accurate template would be something like, “Awesome, I’ve evolved with [trait] which deters predators!”

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who designed the process of evolution?

    (Jk)

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• ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where does THC fit in this gang? Does it serve a purpose for the plant.

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It also functions as insect repellant (1)

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  • sinkingship@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Uh wow! Mouth dry! Mouth dry!

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• Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always thought this meme said “balls cold”. Am I losing it?

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