The Botany of Desire

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Just as the bee depends on the flower for food, the flower depends on the bee to transport it's genes. Thus, the bee is not just the subject here, but so is the flower. They have a coevolutionary relationship.

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Bees are attracted to apples' sweetness, just as humans are. So bees transport the genes and humans plant more trees and the apple succeeds in its plan of reproducing.

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Tulips take advantage of our desire for beauty. We love to look at them so we plant more, and they get to reproduce. Everybody's happy.

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Humans love potatoes. We eat them mashed, boiled, and fried. We want big, good-tasting potatoes and grow them. We grow potatoes but do their great taste make us do it?

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The picture says it all. People like to smoke cannabis for the effects it has on them. Once again, the cannabis succeeds in it's goal of reproduction.

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So there you have it. Maybe humans aren't the only subjects in the garden of evolution. Maybe our desires and those of what we "domesticate" aren't that different at all. HMMMMM........