What are we?

[AV1611VET]

If abiogenesis kick-started life on this planet, which did it kick-start first? plants or animals?

If it kick-started plants, are we plants?

If it kick-started animals, are plants animals?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Animal.

 

[anna ~ grace]

We’re humans.

 

[Ophiolite]

If abiogenesis kick-started life on this planet, which did it kick-start first? plants or animals?

If it kick-started plants, are we plants?

If it kick-started animals, are plants animals?

Neither plants, nor animals were the first life. That role falls to either the archeae, or the bacteria, or their predecessor.

We are animals.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Neither. abiogenesis kick-started self-replicating molecules and branched out from there. Plants and animals are separate branches. That we share common ancestors with plants doesn't make us plants anymore than it makes dogs cats even though they are both carnivores. They are separate branches.

 

[AV1611VET]

Animal.

Is that where the reverse osmosis ends?

We are humans, then hominids, then primates, then mammals, then chordates, then animals, then what?

Take us back to abiogenesis.

 

[Mr. M]

I am light.
Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now light in the Lord.
Walk as children of light

 

[AV1611VET]

Neither plants, nor animals were the first life.

Okay.

That role falls to either the archeae, or the bacteria, or their predecessor.

So we're either archeae, bacteria, or their predecessor?

We are animals.

Keep going.

 

[AV1611VET]

Neither. abiogenesis kick-started self-replicating molecules and branched out from there. Plants and animals are separate branches.

So what are we between animals and self-replicating molecules?

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Is that where the reverse osmosis ends?

We are humans, then hominids, then primates, then mammals, then chordates, then animals, then what?

Take us back to abiogenesis.

Well, the eukaryote domain classification follows the Animalia kingdom.

Not sure what getting water from desalination has anything to do with it.

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

Is this another 'missing link' type situation? AV isn't happy that humans are (correctly) classed as animals due to biology and thus he needs to find something to nitpick?

 

[Nithavela]

We are Devo.

 

[AV1611VET]

Is this another 'missing link' type situation? AV isn't happy that humans are (correctly) classed as animals due to biology and thus he needs to find something to nitpick?

I'm just tired of hearing, "Are you a mammal? Are you a chordate? Are you a [whatever]?"

But then they stop short of asking us if we're plants which supposedly had something to do with all this.

Land plants arose earlier than thought—and may have had a bigger impact on the evolution of animals | Science | AAAS

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

We are Devo.

Your icon makes me laugh and annoys me to no end.

 

[HitchSlap]

Are we not men? We are DEVO!

 

[Warden_of_the_Storm]

I'm just tired of hearing, "Are you a mammal? Are you a chordate? Are you a [whatever]?"

But then they stop short of asking us if we're plants which supposedly had something to do with all this.

Land plants arose earlier than thought—and may have had a bigger impact on the evolution of animals | Science | AAAS

So nitpicking.

 

[AV1611VET]

We are Devo.

Didn't they wear flowerpots on their heads?

 

[AV1611VET]

So nitpicking.

It's not nitpicking.

I just want to know if we're plants or not, according to science.

 

[Vap841]

So what are we

We are proto-AI cyborgs

 

[Larniavc]

If abiogenesis kick-started life on this planet, which did it kick-start first? plants or animals?

If it kick-started plants, are we plants?

If it kick-started animals, are plants animals?

Plants evolved after animals but those terms are very modern and not really appropriate.