The Plants Control Us?
Anonymous Artist staticflitr.com
In the paper Botany of Desire the author made an extremely unusual argument that plants manipulate us into planting them. This manipulation is carried out because the plants have intentionally involved to be tastier, prettier, and more appealing. This theory is both revolutionary and absurd.
Dale Mettam
This paper essentially turned the tables on who truly controls the balance of nature. According to this articles, plants actually have a say in whether or not they get planted and control their own destiny. The plants are in fact controlling the humans by appealing to our basic senses...
Adam Holliday
The author used dogs to argue that animals have evolved to become "cuter" and more attractive to humans in order to be bred and thus maintain their existence. The author contrasted the number of dogs present in the world to the number of wolves and let the math do the rest of the work. Although this example is valid, I still do not agree with the author's opinion.
Anoymous Arist from closeentertainment.com
The belief that plants are intelligent and have evolved specifically in order to appeal to the human senses is very absurd. Human preference is an entirely subjective field, and therefore would be impossibly for a plant to evolve to please. The constant fluctuation of human preference would also constantly throw off the plant's ability to conform to human desire. All in all, I honestly did not buy any of what this author was claiming.
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