Eli5 how come fruits and vegetables adapted to how we wanted them to be?

Question

Wouldn’t a fruit that didn’t adapt to us last longer as they weren’t pick?

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Answer 1

We took plants that exhibited traits we liked (bigger, more colorful, more resilient to harsh climate) and bred those ones specifically to make more of them that had the beneficial traits. This continued over thousands of years to get what we have now.

Organisms don’t care about what’s beneficial to others, only themselves. If they weren’t picked they’d stay the same as they were.