Wouldn’t a fruit that didn’t adapt to us last longer as they weren’t pick?
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It helps to understand the POINT of fruit. It WANTS to get eaten. No seriously. The entire point of a fruiting body is to attract some creature to eat it. Seeds aren’t digestible for the most part, so whatever ate the fruit would poop out the seed. And away from the “parent” plant. Seed hits the ground, sprouts into a new plant, and life continues.
Other plants that don’t do fruiting bodies move their seeds other ways. Dandelions for example, have their seeds attached to a frond that catches the wind and floats away. Pinecones “explode” and fling their seeds a considerable distance. Some plants release their seeds as a very fine dust so it floats away on the breeze.
It’s all about finding efficient ways to get your young out there and away from you so you don’t choke each other out.
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