The Botany Of Desire

Really interesting video about how plants alter themselves to use us to spread them.
HollywoodBobsays...

I don't know, this video tries to make the argument that plants change themselves in order to spread, yet, these are all cultured plants. Had it not been for people recognizing a minor trait in the plant, and then selectively breeding those plants to make those traits more prevalent, they'd just be the same as they were when they were first discovered by man.

laurasays...

I'm not entirely convinced that marijuana was deciding to make itself attractive to humans...it just figured out how to make its own insect repellant and be super sticky so as to better catch pollen. It's probably not trying to make us happier by growing these days stickier and stickier...it may well just be desperate for pollen because the females are isolated by us.

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