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Thinking plants?
How come plants seem to almost think or evolve? <br />Plants grow fruit so animals will eat them and poop out there seeds elsewhere, spreading there genetics around. Some trees release there seeds in those helicopter things that fly all over the place and then there is that plant out at the California botanical gardens that gives off the odor of a rotting corpse so flies and bugs will come and fall into it so the plant can eat them. Then there is the Venus Flytrap .. and Pine trees out west that the pinecones seeds will not come out unless there is a fire to clear away the land. What makes plants do these things? How come they all do different things like grow different fruits or smell like a dead corpses. Hell I was just watching a TV show on how some plants will choke and kill off the neighboring plants so it can get the best sunlight. Are they evolving? Thinking slowly? If it is that a bunch of plants were scattered around at the beginning and whatever one had something that worked survived then why do they seem to be getting smarter? I bet if you took a oak tree from today back to the time before animals there would be nothing but oak trees throughout the world today because of things it does today that plants didnt do back then. Plants were here before any animal. What would plants benefit from fruits, why didnt fruiting plants die off because there wasnt anything to eat them back then and what made them start to fruit when animals did arrive. Even today why would one tree drop it seeds by those helicopter things and the one next to it grows acorns for squirrels to take off and burry? Is there a brain in there?<br /> I know it seems like a bunch of dumb questions. Im sure that plants evolved from some spec of moss on a rock some where back at the beginning of time but plants over time have adapted and evolved. With no brain how are they doing it. I am sure you will say it is written in there DNA but why and how would a plant think now I have to start growing some fruit so animals will spread my seeds around after never doing it before?
How come plants seem to almost think or evolve? <br />Plants grow fruit so animals will eat them and poop out there seeds elsewhere, spreading there genetics around. Some trees release there seeds in those helicopter things that fly all over the place and then there is that plant out at the California botanical gardens that gives off the odor of a rotting corpse so flies and bugs will come and fall into it so the plant can eat them. Then there is the Venus Flytrap .. and Pine trees out west that the pinecones seeds will not come out unless there is a fire to clear away the land. What makes plants do these things? How come they all do different things like grow different fruits or smell like a dead corpses. Hell I was just watching a TV show on how some plants will choke and kill off the neighboring plants so it can get the best sunlight. Are they evolving? Thinking slowly? If it is that a bunch of plants were scattered around at the beginning and whatever one had something that worked survived then why do they seem to be getting smarter? I bet if you took a oak tree from today back to the time before animals there would be nothing but oak trees throughout the world today because of things it does today that plants didnt do back then. Plants were here before any animal. What would plants benefit from fruits, why didnt fruiting plants die off because there wasnt anything to eat them back then and what made them start to fruit when animals did arrive. Even today why would one tree drop it seeds by those helicopter things and the one next to it grows acorns for squirrels to take off and burry? Is there a brain in there?<br /> I know it seems like a bunch of dumb questions. Im sure that plants evolved from some spec of moss on a rock some where back at the beginning of time but plants over time have adapted and evolved. With no brain how are they doing it. I am sure you will say it is written in there DNA but why and how would a plant think now I have to start growing some fruit so animals will spread my seeds around after never doing it before?
