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So weird to think we share a ancestor with mushrooms, trees and jellyfish.

• lancesells 2y ago
  I was thinking about this the other day. Like how all of these different types of things splintered off and evolved in different ways. Trees are these creatures that grow their limbs into the earth and the sky rendering them immobile but they have the same ancestor as us.
  • tonyedgecombe 2y ago
    There is some speculation that the last common ancestor between us and fruit flies preceded the evolution of brains. If correct this means brains have evolved independently at least twice.
• sixothree 2y ago
  Multiple genesis events seems even weirder to me.
• Ekaros 2y ago
  On other had think of DNA and start wondering would same mechanism appear multiple times independently.