• raydenuni@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    Still a good joke as we’re mammals, but peppers’s spice is so that birds, and not mammals, eat their seeds and poop them out far away as birds aren’t bothered by capsaicin.

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      8 months ago

      lending purpose to an evolutionary trait is a mistake. It is possibly that mechanism by which they attained some degree of success, but evolution doesn’t ‘think’ unless youre into predeterminism like that.

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        8 months ago

        Totally. Perhaps a better way to phrase it would be, the successful result of the adaptation was that birds spread their seeds instead of mammals. Until us.

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        8 months ago

        the correct response to mine may be ‘why crabs then?’ to which i have no response xD

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      8 months ago

      Birds going to their local Mexican and complaining that the ‘Anus Scorcher Tacos’ are too bland