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Author Topic:   Why do apples taste good?
PaulK
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Message 6 of 41 (402821)
05-30-2007 6:54 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by taylor_31
05-29-2007 11:24 PM


To summarise it, all three are true to some extent.
The initial edibility was probably due to chance.
This was enhanced by natural selection - the seeds can pass through the gut and be deposited far away (with a nice dollop of fertiliser).
In the case of almost all modern fruit this has been further enhanced by human intervention (artificial selection, cross-breeding etc.)

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