| | hmm. i think i'll update xanga today.
i've been thinking about really random things. it's probably just the aftereffects of LS lecture and my aggravating textbook. (yes, it deserves the word aggravating because it's the worst read on the face of the planet and the author has the wonderfully extensive vocabulary of an eighth-grader. you have no idea how many times he writes "to drive this point home" in a single chapter.)
so. if plants were to have co-evolved with humans instead of insects. that's what i've been considering this past week. i keep seeing this weird image in my head - fake, pseudo-human perfect women coming out of corners behind buildings, especially voluptuous and pheromone-exuding with massive amounts of gooey pollen on their breasts and nether regions. [yes, i like hyphens.] they're kind of creepy with their arms extending toward me in mock despair, with little pockets for eyes and a mouth opening. if orchids have the ability to lure male wasps to them by mimicking female wasp genitalia, who's to say the same couldn't have happened if we'd co-evolved with the plants instead of insects? (let's not consider the fact that we have enormous brains for the moment, k?) instead of ultraviolet patterns on flowers to attract pollinators, these flower-women would have evolved skin colors that would be particularly pleasing to men. different regions would have different colors of flower-humans - asian and middle-eastern flower-women would probably be amazingly white while north american ones would be tanner, i expect. the males of our species would become phenomenally effective pollinators; pollen would have the ability to latch on and travel to places far beyond its wind-dispersal range because of--and i don't mean to sound pessimistic here-- the human male's large sexual capacity.
they're really clever, you know. i think i would be able to write a whole sci-fi novel about this if i could ever get myself to write anything. i hardly follow through! look at how often i update xanga.
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