Avocados Would Have Gone Extinct Without Humans

Avocados evolved their large, fatty fruit to be eaten by giant Pleistocene megafauna like ground sloths and gomphotheres (elephant-like animals), who would spread the seeds. When those animals went extinct about 13,000 years ago, avocados should have followed — but humans began cultivating them, saving the species.

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