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 and engineering!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Posted under Biology, Evolution, Philosophy
This post was written by drknuth on August 8, 2007
