The second point seems like an important omission if true. Not having known that originally, I notice that based on the model in this post, it seems like the sort of thing that could likely be true. I don’t think I explicitly mentioned the neighbor method either, though I think it’s another reasonable inference from what I did say.
On your second point, it seems like while fruits often store food packages outside the seeds, grains grow a bunch of similar modules with uncertainty about whether they’ll be used as the reproductive payload or the calorie surplus that persuades the symbiote to spread the reproductive payload. My guess would be that before explicit agriculture, some grasses did well around humans because there would be the occasional undigested or otherwise scattered seed by accident.
Overall it seems like you’re pointing at something important on the object level here, and I appreciate the engagement with the *kind* of explanation I was trying to give.
The second point seems like an important omission if true. Not having known that originally, I notice that based on the model in this post, it seems like the sort of thing that could likely be true. I don’t think I explicitly mentioned the neighbor method either, though I think it’s another reasonable inference from what I did say.
On your second point, it seems like while fruits often store food packages outside the seeds, grains grow a bunch of similar modules with uncertainty about whether they’ll be used as the reproductive payload or the calorie surplus that persuades the symbiote to spread the reproductive payload. My guess would be that before explicit agriculture, some grasses did well around humans because there would be the occasional undigested or otherwise scattered seed by accident.
Overall it seems like you’re pointing at something important on the object level here, and I appreciate the engagement with the *kind* of explanation I was trying to give.