How Plants Have Been Using Humans
We think we're so clever, but perhaps we underestimate plants.Edible flora have long evolved ways to move seeds away from their parents to survive and thrive and humans are just another part of their grand plan, argues Robert Spengler from the Max Planck Institute in Germany.Note that if the apple does not fall far from the tree, then the apple seedlings will be overshadowed by the parent tree and not survive, he says.