The article is reminiscent of the some old science fiction tropes, about very different life cycles. The article also reminded me of the chicken and egg invers

The article is reminiscent of the some old science fiction tropes, about very different life cycles. The article also reminded me of the chicken and egg inversion (I think from a chapter in a Richard Dawkins book) -- the observation that chickens are merely the mechanism through which eggs propagate themselves throughout the world.