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Reversing Established Orders
Title: Reversing Established Orders
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 911 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reversing Established Orders
Our categorizations of nature are based on domination. The world is divided ecologically into predator and prey, or bigger more advanced animals versus smaller simpler creatures. One category is superior which dominates the second category which is inferior. But this dualism based on dominance represented by the demand of a preferred human order upon nature is in fact contradictory. As an obvious example,carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap consumes insects, and the bigger and …showed first 75 words of 911 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 911 total…sponge captures small crustaceans on the filaments. Because of the adhesiveness, prey can not escape. After one day thin filaments completely cover the prey and within a few days, the prey is
digested. This sponge has become a carnivore.
These four stories refute this dualism based on domination of one category over another. The little guys turn the tables and have proved their superiority in these examples, which brings the method of categorization into question.
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