Unanswered questions

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My question from the beginning that can not be explained by mutation is if the daily amount of solar input of a given species is 75w at full contact, then how is it possible that some of the oldest species of plant life can successfully process so much more solar energy when made available?

And my answer, that you've continually ignored in favor of harping on the mutation thing, which I added as a possibility so I wasn't just picking holes, is that since evolution is in no way beholden to the environment, the amount of solar energy the plants can absorb in no way relates to the amount of solar energy available.

Once again, this isn't like Pokemon, where the environment you're in determines the type of thing that you are; animals routinely have traits that either make no sense given their environment, served some purpose at another time, or are even outright harmful, but don't directly kill the organism. The best example I can give are dolphins: aquatic mammals that still breathe air. Why? Because the environment that you are in has no bearing on how you're evolving, beyond killing those of your species with really harmful traits.