What “intelligence” or force forces a tree to produce flying seeds so that they move away from the origin?
In: Biology
No intelligence or force. Trees that dispersed their seeds over a larger space in a certain environment were more successful passing on their genes than the ones that didn’t. Maybe the ones with seeds in a small area just all burned in the next forest fire. Or predators just waited under the tree and ate all the seeds before they could grow into plants. Or a disease spread easily from one to another when they were densely packed.
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