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Why do we eat food at all? It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.
by gohrt 10y ago
Why do we eat food at all? It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did.
- kaybe 10y agoIt's more efficient to let others do the work and simply steal, which is what we are doing, up to the highest level.
- jklein11 10y agoI'm no biologist, heck I didn't even study science in college, but wouldn't entropy suggest that adding another layer would be less efficient?
- qbrass 10y ago>It seems self-evident that a biology that didn't synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide would be outcompeted by those that did. Their shortsightedness poisoned the Earth with the waste products of their energy production, changing the world's climate, and driving many of them to extinction. It also skewed the efficiency numbers towards organisms that didn't need to sit around synthesizing carbohydrates when there was so many free carbohydrates just sitting around for anything able to digest them.