Maybe the evolution of the vacuoles and chloroplasts simultaneously was simply chance.
there ya go.
evolution has very little to do which entities making 'choices'.
evolution exists independent of anything making choices ...
gypsy moths didn't 'choose' to mimic the bark of the trees they live on ...
they exist and continue to exist because for whatever reason ...
some mutation resulted in them matching the bark ...
and THAT is what increased their chances of survival and propagation.
evolution works because:
what works lives and continues ...
what doesn't work dies and doesn't.
period.
it has little to do with decision making or control ...
that's just we humans thinking we are somehow the end
product and crowning achievment of evolution and life.
pah!
we are only one tiny part of life ...
no more, no less ...
the web of life and it's diversity is awesome ...
compared to we puny little beings.
we are tiny little specks in the universe ...
and certainly don't seem to know our place ...
we still think it is all about us. ;)
life, evolution, nature ... is indifferent ...
it isn't complicated, it's simple ...
what works continues ...
what doesn't ends.
who knows ...
earth may have a few billion years left ....
perhaps some intellegent life form may yet evolve.
[perhaps you can tell ...
I'm not all that impressed with humans ...
I think we've made rather a mess of things.] :D
jijimuge:
all things and events are mutually interpenetrating and interdependant.
~griz~