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From TFA: > However the team are keeping an open mind on whether the plants might be the ones in the driving seat. If that’s the case, maybe the headline shou
by noizejoy 6y ago
From TFA:
> However the team are keeping an open mind on whether the plants might be the ones in the driving seat.
If that’s the case, maybe the headline should read “bumbling bees tricked into working early by clever plants”
All joking aside, this seems like a textbook case of correlation having been established, but causation not so much (yet).
- rbanffy 6y agoIt's probably both ways. Neither evolved in isolation and flowers and bees have been doing it since ever.
- abrowne 6y agoWell, at least since the Cretaceous :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_history_of_plants#Flowers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_history_of_plants... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee#Evolution
- fenwick67 6y agoTIL most dinosaurs never saw a flower :(
- yencabulator 6y agoTo be fair, you've never seen a forest of mushrooms. That might have been neat too.