> Why can't plants move? Surely these things would offer greater Darwinian fitness. Not necessarily for plants. They do in fact move. They just do it different

> Why can't plants move? Surely these things would offer greater Darwinian fitness. Not necessarily for plants. They do in fact move. They just do it differently. They have no problem spreading their DNA throughout the world via seeds and pollen. They use a lot less energy too, compared with sprouting legs and getting up to walk around. If they did this, they would likely require much greater quantities of food, including protein, which would put plants at a disadvantage. In any case, plants have also evolved on a completely different fitness track than that of animals. Plants have evolved incredible manipulation of chemistry, far beyond what humans can produce today, let alone even understand. I recently finished reading Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan) where he describes how plants have co-evolved with humans, appealing to our selection of flowers, fruits, and vegetables to further distribute their DNA. Who's actually farming who? Interesting stuff.