How does a tree (or any plant, really), know to evolve to produce a delicious fruit or a poison berry, a seed inside an impenetrable shell, or invent a type of flying machine, in order to reproduce? (Each of these examples exists in my backyard)

How do they receive feedback about their evolutionary experiments? How do they know it worked/failed. [10]

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      the failed ones have not been able to compete or pass their genes on

      Well, that’s feedback.

      That the feedback mechanism that makes the process work. What is hard to understand is that it “informs” a population, not any individual.