Maize can’t grow naturally because of the husks, it needs humans
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crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 3 days ago
Are we absolutely certain it didnt evolve so that humans have to keep it going? Maybe that was it’s plan all along?
workerONE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Maize didn’t evolve naturally, we created it. Teosinte on the other hand is generally eaten and shat back out before germinating
workerONE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I watched this video a few weeks ago. It’s fantastic youtu.be/dYHEwTQHt24
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
wait, you can’t just bury an old ear of corn, you gotta take the husk off? TIL
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I have no idea, but I would imagine if you bury if it could maybe still work. Not on its own though. The ear isn’t a seed though. It’s a large cluster of seeds. The natural ancestor corn evolved from looks more like wheet, but obviously still not like the wheet we know.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i was thinking more “you’re burying the entire fruit” than “you’re burying a single seed” but i didn’t make my assumptions clear.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I have a new topic to watch a YouTube video about at 3 am
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
damn, i had so much arguments with creationists around myself recently, that just the words “plan” and “evolution” put together make me unhappy
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
plan and evolution together feels eugenics-y, yeah that makes me unhappy too
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
tbf, if we extrapolate ad absurdum, not reproducing with the first mature enough person we meet, and rather chosing partner based of arbitrary traits we wanna see in our kids already sounds eugenic-y
i was talking more so about a hlant doing adaptaition “with purpose in mind”
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That weird, because all of our farmed crops and animals are selectively breed, which means planned evolution (usually, but I guess some ancient examples were purely accidental). Evolution is just the process of selection to perpetuate offspring. It being planned or unplanned doesn’t matter. Creationism is just not talking about evolution at all usually.
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
yeah, you’re right, but, i guess i’ve chosen my words poorly, as you’re arguing not about what i had in mind.
OP asked about the end purpose of ihe reproductive mecanism of said tree going so complex, it can no longer reproduce, wether it did that, so we would reproduce the the tree ourselves instead. They obviously said that half jokingly, but i still was trigerred.