We do do that. You’re describing farming. Humans love to terraform land masses in order to propagate species we consider beneficial. Check out Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States and a view of history in which humanity itself became domesticated through symbiosis with native species.
I’m not sure this is still true in the industrial era where human impact is responsible for habitat loss, monocultures, mass extinction and loss of biodiversity and reduction of undomesticated biomass in general.
We do do that. You’re describing farming. Humans love to terraform land masses in order to propagate species we consider beneficial. Check out Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States and a view of history in which humanity itself became domesticated through symbiosis with native species.
and a recent scishow about how “weedy” species like rye tricked humans into propagating it, ultimately evolving into a crops itself.
I’m not sure this is still true in the industrial era where human impact is responsible for habitat loss, monocultures, mass extinction and loss of biodiversity and reduction of undomesticated biomass in general.