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Unicellular "Enigma" Changes From Predator To Plant and Back
SilverEar writes "Imagine a creature that swims and preys on others, but once it eats a certain kind of plant, that plant grows inside it, causing the predator to lose its ability to prey and start using sunlight to make its food. Its preying mouth is replaced by an eye that is needed to find sunlight. This is the Hatena ('enigma' in Japanese). The kicker: when Hatena reproduces, one offspring is a peaceful photosynthesizer with the sun-seeking eye, while the other is yet again a predator with a voracious mouth."
This is similar to the statement that says correlation does not equal causation.
A statement which is misused far more often than it is used correctly.
Just because I have brown hair and someone across the country also has brown hair and many other similarities doesn't mean both of us are related.
You and every other human being on Earth, regardless of hair color, are far more closely related than 99.9999...(some very large number of 9's)% of living organisms.
At least they called it a "hypothesis" instead of forcing us to accept it as verified fact.
Ah, now you play your hand. You're deliberately ignorant of scientific vocabulary, and of the way science is done; probably a creationist and climate change denialist to boot. Tell you what, why don't you educate yourself on the meanings of the words "hypothesis," "theory," and "fact" -- and why you will pretty much never hear any scientific result described with that last -- and come back when you're ready to play in the big kids' sandbox.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.