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Could cocoa trees evolve dioecy?
Genegeneering!
Is there any reason it couldn’t be MADE that way? You posit a futuristic world. We can’t quite do this YET, but it could be readily made as an engineered organism - either a hybrid with ...
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Could cocoa trees evolve dioecy?
Yes
Cocoa, as you said, is an angiosperm. According to Kumar et al, about 5% of all angiosperm species are dioecious, about 5% of all current angiosperm species are dioecious. So there.
The article in ...
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Could cocoa trees evolve dioecy?
Yes... probably.
For one, I am extremely curious as to why you need cocoa beans to evolve a certain reproductive... what is even the word? Paradigm? And how does it effect worldbuilding? It seems ...
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