I am reading this amazing book by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". A couple of pages later, he's talking about The Beauty of a Flower---
Yeah. Pleasure of finding things out indeed!
I was thrilled when I could read further between those lines. The last lines not only infer that the insects can see the color, but the fact that the plant knows that the insects can![...]but I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time I see much more about the flower than he sees. I can imaging the cells in there, the complicated actions inside which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at a dimension of one centimeter, there is also beauty at a smaller dimension, the inner structure. Also the processes, the fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting-- it means that insects can see the color.[...]
Yeah. Pleasure of finding things out indeed!
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Richard Feynman was indeed a gr8 scientist and an amasing human being... If interested u can have a look at his interview taken in 1988 and aired on BBC Horizon here - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7136440703094429927
Seems an interesting read...
Another reasoning is this- by Darwin's theory only those plants who had colorful flowers survived (or kept outnumbering other plants) by 'unknowingly attracting insects.
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