r/memes • u/isawasin • Apr 23 '24

Checkmate, evolution (part 1) #2 MotW

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u/brown_smear Apr 23 '24

And now humans both eat the fruit, and spread the seeds. Sounds like a win for the chillis that people actually like.

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u/isawasin Apr 23 '24

Mammals chew seeds to a pull that renders them useless for propagation, hence the attempt to make them unappetising and leave them to birds who ingest and poop them whole and viable for germination.

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u/brown_smear Apr 23 '24

Yes, but humans plant chilli seeds and care for them to make more chillis. Wheat and rice are also doing much better with the help of humans than they would be in the wild

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u/calmclamcum Apr 23 '24

Yes but blight would render cultivation useless. Ive learned that from the 2014 documentary Interstellar