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adammarples on Oct 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do fungi lurking inside cancers speed their growth...

Animals evolved long before plants. What's crazy is that plants were arguably evolved by fungi using alga to farm sunlight

11235813213455 on Oct 8, 2022 [–]

> Animals evolved long before plants

No

underwater: algae 3500MY vs sponges, worms, shells 800MY-485MY

out of water: plants 470MY vs millipedes, tetrapod 420MY-400MY

lilgreenland on Oct 9, 2022 | [–]

quora says animals https://www.quora.com/Which-evolved-first-plants-or-animals

11235813213455 on Oct 9, 2022 | | [–]

Algae existed long before animals

And even on land, he seems to be wrong (or at least not up to date): https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/plant-life..., https://www.science.org/content/article/land-plants-arose-ea...

adammarples on Oct 20, 2022 | | [–]

This is precisely my point - algae are not plants, they evolved a long time before

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