• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I just want to know how trees have any kind of bias that isn’t directly related to their needs for survival and growth.

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      4 months ago

      Calling it racism kind of downplays the massive amount of genocide associated with actual racism.

      What you explained is more like nepotism, which is rampant among the animal kingdom and beyond.

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        In a lot of cases it could also just be self preservation, a lot of these networks are basically nodes of a single organism which has reproduced through cloning for the express purpose of achieving these more extended intertwined root systems to have a wider range to pull water and nutrients from.

        The world’s largest organism is one of these tree to tree networks.