Re: Plants The sixth sense

From: Krzysztof Kozminski kk at kozminski.com> on 2002.02.01 at 15:01:53(8116) On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Paul Tyerman wrote: > My particular thing that stood out is that certain vines have tiny yellow > nodules on their stems, that mimic the eggs of their main predator. [...]> +More > My thoughts on that were..... I know that the fittest survive and therefore > go on to reproduce, but the natural chances of a particular vine producing > nodules that mimic the eggs of their only predator is phenomenally small. > There has to be some way that they register the presence of these eggs and > more importantly their COLOUR. Nodules occuring naturally on a wine is > "relatively" possible I suppose, but then colouring the same colour and > shade as the eggs? How is this explained? The ones with nodules of wrong color/shape got eaten by the predators before they managed to set seed, and aren't seen much any more.... KK ==================== "Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking" Krzysztof Kozminski kk@kozminski.com http://www.kozminski.com/

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