On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 5:27:40 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:

> Fruits in the wild did not develop over hundreds of thousand of years to
> appeal to the human eye or be tasty to us humanoids. That would not make
> much evolutionary sense.

Humans have done more for the evolution of tasty and attractive produce
than natural evolution ever did, starting with the domestication of wheat
10,000 years ago.

I recommend The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollen. It's brief look
into the recent evolution of four plant species, and makes a nice
"think piece" for considering other species.

Cindy Hamilton