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Originally Posted by Clawhammer
The conditions where ever that plant evolved, when it evolved, were ideal because the plant evolved to that environment.
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This might have been true if the environment and pressures from competition were not rapidly moving targets on an evolutionary timescale, if conditions in natural ranges were uniform from boundary to boundary, and if species never faced competition from others species that crowd them out of their most favorable niche. The enormous gap between the natural environment and what the organism needed to survive is why mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, dinosaurs, and billions of other species are extinct.
-Keith