[hinkley]

Evolution doesn't plan, no, but when you're looking at survivorship, can you still call it a coincidence?

Co-evolution uses happy accidents all the time, but then some of those accidents get baked in, and what's left over is the result of that accident.

Peppers became more likely to be spread by birds because they became unsavory to mammals. Then what happened? And then what happened? And now we had pre-agricultural peppers, and now we have ... something else.