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[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 95 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Literally no quality will guarantee a species survival in the modern world more than being delicious to humans.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 8 months ago

But I bet we have vastly reduced their generic diversity so if humans disappear they will have more issues to survive without us.

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Mint would take over continents if humans left. Ask any gardener.

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