HazeThere OP t1_iuglhim wrote
Reply to comment by sharr_zeor in ELI5: How do plants know that they will be eaten and therefore their seeds will be spread and regrow? by HazeThere
This makes a lot of sense, but how does that explain lemons and limes?
sharr_zeor t1_iugoqc1 wrote
It's the same, they just ended up adapting differently.
The basic premise still applies, one plant mutated to be sweet/sour/bitter/spicy etc It's neighbour plant mutated to be less so
Animals/humans liked one version more, and liked the other version less, so those plants get eaten, and the seeds get spread
In some cases, humans specifically liked certain tastes so we manually selected and bred plants with specific mutations and variations to get the flavours we wanted
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