• SuzyQ
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    123 months ago

    How does the plant know what hummingbirds looks like?

    • @naught
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      73 months ago

      It doesn’t! It evolved this way through natural selection over eons

      • pm_me_ur_thoughts
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        23 months ago

        What’s the benefit here? attracts more hummings to polinate? Or keeps worms away?

        • @naught
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          33 months ago

          No idea! It’s important not to ascribe purpose or intent to beneficial but random mutations. It must do something. Like you’re saying, more pollinators or scare away pests etc. Somehow it is evolutionarily beneficial for reproducing with the additional benefit of being sick af

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            Or just random coincidence out of millions of different plants and it didn’t do anything to harm the plant from spreading.

          • @[email protected]
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            03 months ago

            Kind of weird to say you can’t ascribe a purpose to the beneficial mutations and that they must do something. You say they have no purpose, then say they’re beneficial (which is a purpose), then almost explicitly say that they must have a purpose.

            • @[email protected]
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              53 months ago

              No, they said not to ascribe a purpose, but that it obviously has purpose. Those are not the same thing. There is purpose, but we should not presume to understand or identify said purpose.