Archives for 8 August 2007
Plants and Animals: Chemists and Engineers
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 2:26 am.
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Filed under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy.
Last winter I went to the Galapagos Islands. While there, I was wondering why plants have all sorts of medicinal properties, but it is rather rare that animals do.
A naturalist explained to me that plants evolved to use chemistry as their main defense; whereas animals developed locomotion. Two different kingdoms adopted two distinct technologies for survival: chemistry […]
