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Re:Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive pe... by chmod600 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @01:52AM (#27012643)
While I'm sure not everyone had access to sweet fruit all the time, are you sure it was really so rare?

Fruit is meant to be eaten, so as long as plants have the spare energy, I don't see why they wouldn't make lots of appealing fruit.

Veggies would make more sense to be bitter.

Also, where did you get 1000 generations from? That's 20000 years in one place. It seems like a lot of humans would be a lot more mobile than that.

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Re:Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive pe... by yosito on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:25AM (#27012786)
> Fruit is meant to be eaten

Meant by who? Evolution don't give a fuck...

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Re:Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive pe... by LegitShady on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:00AM (#27012942)
I thought the whole evolutionary advantage was that animals spread the seeds around after eating the fruit, making survival much more likely. So not 'meant to be eaten' as in intentional choices, but meant to be eaten as in - this is why its an evolutionary advantage.
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Re:Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive pe... by johnchristopher on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:38AM (#27013416)
By the plant. The plant that is driven by its genes to maximize its offspring.
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