Is the Fruit a Seed Carrier or a Self-Nourishing Biological Incubator?
Is the Fruit a Seed Carrier or a Self-Nourishing Biological Incubator? A Critical Analysis of the Darwinian Model in Light of the Self-Nourishing Seed Encapsulation Theory ## Mahmoud Mohamed Adel Elsofy ## Date: August 2025 ## Date: August 2025 Since the dawn of evolutionary biology, the Darwinian model has dominated the interpretation of fruit function. It claims that fruits evolved primarily to attract animals, enabling seed dispersal across wider areas. This model assumes that animals were already present when fruits emerged, and that the fruit’s role was always external and transport-oriented. But is this assumption valid? And could the fruit have evolved with a completely different purpose? Here emerges the **Self-Nourishing Seed Encapsulation Theory**, which proposes that the fruit is not a transport vessel, but rather a **biological incubator**—a self-contained environment that nourishes the seed through decomposition, e...
