Nature of the day
Nature of the day
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“Chilies direct their spice at rodents that grind up their seeds, while encouraging benevolent birds to disperse their seeds far away.”
The Complicated Evolutionary History of Spicy Chili Peppers
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/fla…
- not accurate, I think. They are successful because birds HAPPEN to disperse their seeds far away and mice HAPPEN to not like spice._niko
- not like they decided on a game plan complete with charts and projections :)_niko
- @_niko Not sure about that. Evolution of a species doesn't occur in a vacuum. A species has to be successful in it's environment and adapt to it, or die out.mort_
- Birds can't taste capsaicin.i_monk