As we worry about the Rise Of The Machines and Climate Change and the currently occurring Extinction Event, let's not ignore the ability of Earth's Plant Life to engineer and facilitate our demise.
From BBC:
The more genes in your genome, the more highly evolved you are as a species.
We have a scorecard that shows humans lagging rather badly:
Homo Sapiens: 26,000 genes
Rice: 45,000 genes
A few things I really like thinking about because of this:
- There are 650 species of carnivorous plants that we know of
- A plant keeps its head below ground and displays its sexual organs to the outside world
- If we associate intelligence with the ability to earn the right to survive, we may be in for some very rude surprises
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