Comments on: This Plant May Have Evolved to Escape Humans https://modernfarmer.com/2020/11/this-plant-may-have-evolved-to-escape-humans/ Farm. Food. Life. Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Ron Robinson https://modernfarmer.com/2020/11/this-plant-may-have-evolved-to-escape-humans/#comment-36488 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:06:51 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=141845#comment-36488 In reply to Deborah Shubat.

Thank you Deborah for making an intelligent statement about evolution. Sometimes people seem to get it so backwards.

]]> By: Deborah Shubat https://modernfarmer.com/2020/11/this-plant-may-have-evolved-to-escape-humans/#comment-36451 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:37:47 +0000 http://modernfarmer.com/?p=141845#comment-36451 i read this Fritalleria article,
and object to the viewpoint. I would have to guess that camo coloring is probably a natural variation in the population and when humans grab the brightly colored plants it leaves a larger percentage of the camo colors to actually reproduce from bulbs and seed. so the selection pressure from the human predators is driving the color change….. this article makes it sound like the plant decided to hide…


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