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Avocados outlived the giant animals that spread their seeds

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Your expensive millennial toast topping is a literal evolutionary ghost. The avocado's absurdly large seed was designed to be eaten and pooped out by giant Pleistocene megafauna, meaning the fruit only survived because humans intervened before the rotting pits realized their target demographic went extinct.

Avocados outlived the giant animals that spread their seeds
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