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A thought for the day (hexbear.net)

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Stemz
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We can't possibly know that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

it's extremely easy to know if you define "flower" phylogenetically, so "flower" refers to the related descendents of the ancestor of all flowers.

It's plausible somewhere else out there is an organism evolved to be very similar to flowers, but they wouldn't be flowers the same way a thylacine isn't a type of wolf.