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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the plant. Some plants like to grow close together, they don't need an animal to distribute their seeds. Other plants like to spread out, and they benefit if birds eat and distribute the seeds, but not mammals.

Evolution is purely a results driven process, all that matters is can the organism create offspring that are capable of creating offspring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some plants like to grow close together

Or maybe they grow well close together because they evolved to do so because their seeds weren't being spread all that far away?

Sorry couldn't help but nitpick there. But you're right, things don't evolve in any particular direction, it's all about just being above the bar of "not dying before producing offspring."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No offense taken. It's a complex topic that can't realistically be understood from a few comments on the Internet. Feel free to add detail or correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's hard to talk about evolution without injecting intent into it. Selection bias on natural selection as it were. Like a species had a good "evolution strategy," But no, it just evolved that way because it survived. We just don't talk about the ones that didn't survive. Well, unless they were cool like dinosaurs.