Why have plants never evolved into animals?
You could write a book on this subject and still not come up with a real conclusion, so I’ll just tell you the basics: 1. Plants and animals follow different evolutionary paths. It is possible to find some animals with chloroplasts, but these are mostly from endosymbiotic relationships. Feel free to look up the word endosymbiosis, it’s an interesting concept, which is how plants are believed to have gained chloroplasts in the first place and animals gained mitochondria. 2. Plants are surprisingly more evolved than animals. Many have adapted to growing and living in the same place for the entirety of their lives and relying on external factors for pollination (not all of them, but many). They rely on so many external factors, but they’re still around, the proof being that a lot of the Earth is green. So really, why have we not evolved into plants? 3. Evolution is not really a guided process. Mutations in the genome that create physical differences are entirely random. If the new adaptat
