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Meet The Giant Sloths That Gave Us Avocados - An Evolutionary Biologist Explains

Evolution rarely hits delete. Instead, it leaves behind living relics built for animals that no longer exist. Avocados are one of them. The avocado both looks and feels strangely overbuilt: its flesh is abundant, and its seeds are enormous. In fact, its proportions seem fundamentally mismatched to the modern world. There aren’t any animals alive today that are known to swallow the fr... [7634 chars]

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