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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by 11235813213455 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @05:35PM (#33136230)
> Animals evolved long before plants

No

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

out of water: plants 4705MY vs millipedes, tetrapod 420MY-400MY

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by lilgreenland on Saturday October 08, 2022 @09:02PM (#33137460)
quora says animals https://www.quora.com/Which-evolved-first-plants-or-animals
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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by 11235813213455 on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:26AM (#33139100)
It would be good to confront this UCL professor with the fact 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...

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Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth by adammarples on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:22AM (#33273557)
This is precisely my point - algae are not plants, they evolved a long time before
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