Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899, Volume 2 Plant-Dispersal
CHAPTER XI
ADAPTATION AND MEANS OF DISPERSAL
Nature has never concerned herself directly with providing means of dispersal.—Fleshy fruits not made to be eaten.—Nor “sticky” seeds to adhere to plumage.—Nor prickly fruits to entangle themselves in fur and feathers.—The dispersal of seeds a blind result of the struggle between the intruding Evolutionary power and the controlling influence of Adaptation.
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