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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In fact, humans started cultivating mint and chili, hence it worked

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There are billions of cows, chickens, etc. in the world. Purely by numbers, those species are incredibly successful. Yet, If not for humans finding them tasty and easy to manage, we would not have bred them to this degree and they wouldn't have reached this degree of success. Somehow, against all odds, being tasty/something we want to eat has somehow become an incredibly valuable and successful adaptation.

Evolution is absolutely wild, and this really drives home the fact that evolution isn't about the individual's likelihood of survival, but their likelihood of reproduction.

[–] Kalothar 6 points 11 months ago

Well, now it has. But uhhh, rest in pieces to all those species that were tasty ,but too much of a hassle

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