RE: Do you ever doubt your atheism?
August 17, 2014 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2014 at 11:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Consider the Sea Rocket
Notable for the purposes of this thread because it has been demonstrably shown, again in the wild and under lab conditions - to possess kin recognition. Animals use this ability for a variety of reasons (social, competitive, reproductive). In the case of Sea Rocket, it's competitive (more accurately, the lack of competition in their case). In the presence of it's kin it "politely" curbs root growth and cooperates with it's neighboring siblings, maximizing the overall uptake of nutrients by members of it's specific genetic lineage as a unit. In the presence of non-kin members of the same species (or other species of plants) - it shows no such regard, aggressively invading it's neighbors rootspace.
Notable for the purposes of this thread because it has been demonstrably shown, again in the wild and under lab conditions - to possess kin recognition. Animals use this ability for a variety of reasons (social, competitive, reproductive). In the case of Sea Rocket, it's competitive (more accurately, the lack of competition in their case). In the presence of it's kin it "politely" curbs root growth and cooperates with it's neighboring siblings, maximizing the overall uptake of nutrients by members of it's specific genetic lineage as a unit. In the presence of non-kin members of the same species (or other species of plants) - it shows no such regard, aggressively invading it's neighbors rootspace.
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