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Old 08-26-2004, 12:57 PM   #22 (permalink)
CoachAlan
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Originally Posted by Rekna
By using phi the sunflowers are using the most effiecent means to produce the greatest number of seeds.
I agree with stingc, Rekna has the causality wrong. Sunflowers didn't "use" phi to produce the greatest number of seeds. Sunflowers naturally evolved to be more efficient, and phi happens to relate to the way that efficiency was achieved.
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