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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

By the logic we are not humans...

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't ready for how weird this comment section turned out to be...

[–] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Based on your username, you should be used to weird shit.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago
[–] obvs@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Or maybe the microorganisms and food sources that life forms are exposed to have more of an effect on how the macroorganisms evolve than is currently talked about, which would explain why so many things in similar environments evolve similar traits.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

theres also a definition of a what a tree in the sense , its develops wood, many things are tree like, but not trees: such as palms(just overgrown herbs), dracaena( aka cabbage tree, they have something dracenoid thickining.) extinct plants like giant lycophytes and ferns

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Well, I'm just a product of my environment.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are at least all woody plants related?

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

As far as they are all vascular plants, but that's like, basically everything that isn't moss iirc.

The evolution of wood is common because it's simple for cellulose to get denser in response to a need to grow taller to outcompete your neighbors.

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[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I always liked the idea of being a tree like life form.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Imagine looking down at a bunch of cute little things crawling all over you for hundreds of years and then one day one of them shows up with an axe

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Concentrated sun energy sinks

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