This is…certainly a question I just read.
Plants don’t appear to be of a different origin than animals on this planet. They share most of the genetic code* with all other life we know about. The simplest explanation is that we share a common origin, and furthermore that was a common ancestor that likely began from simpler materials on this planet.
*The genetic code is the translation of nucleotide triplets into amino acid sequences
They COULD be evil aliens, but they didn’t come here for us. We showed up LOOOOOOOONG after they took over.
So we are the evil aliens then
I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.
Honestly, it checks out.
from an evolutionary biology standpoint… We’re basically on the order (and quite possibly worse than) of the giant meteor that killed off the dinos. Like, if you tally up the number of extinctions caused by humans, the Anthropocene Era is a mass extinction event.
But we’re also possibly an asteroid that might feel bad and undo it. The asteroid never bothered to un crash into earth.
how do you un-extinct a species?
Even the people bringing the “woolly mamoth” back are incorporating elephant DNA because the genetic samples simply don’t exist in any sense of integrity. Same for the people “bringing back” the dodo.
No, we are related to plants, like everything else
No we share a huge amount of DNA with plants indicating common ancestry.
“Daddy, why do people have to eat?”
[long pull from cig] “Plants… They came here. Now we are enslaved to eat them. It is their way.”
You mean a separate alien species to animal life? No.
That is a possibility that life came about somewhere else in the universe and came to earth later, but that would be all life including plants.
Ease up on the drugs
Keep an open mindset and be more curious in life 👍
okay we will do that if you ease up on the drugs.
IN what way would that be evil? They produce the very thing that keeps us alive by transforming what kills us.
^big plant shill
*hits blunt*
Well trees can communicate through their roots right? So what if clusters of trees act as one big brain either each tree being like a cluster of neurons, and they are more intelligent than even us, but work in such different ways and slower timescales than us that thye don’t seem intelligent to us. And we’re like parasites that they can’t do anything about that gradually destroy them… or something
