minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do trees know?linkfedilinkarrow-up6·4 months ago How do they know it worked/failed. A lot of answers here, but I think what’s still missing is the most intuitive. The plant that sent the seed doesn’t know, rather its offspring does - by simply surviving. The species as a whole “knows” by whatever works. linkfedilink
minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Errorlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agodeleted by creator linkfedilink
A lot of answers here, but I think what’s still missing is the most intuitive. The plant that sent the seed doesn’t know, rather its offspring does - by simply surviving. The species as a whole “knows” by whatever works.