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minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoMint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoCounterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies. From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoBut I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.
minus-squareAhismaMiasma@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoMint would take over continents if humans left. Ask any gardener.
Mint, peppers, and caffeine, the holy trinity of “plant defenses that did not work on humans.”
Counterpoint; those plants are now cultivated in huge numbers, thus ensuring the successful and continued propogation of their genetic legacies.
From an evolutionary perspective, those defences worked too well.
But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.
Mint would take over continents if humans left. Ask any gardener.