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For questions that require plausible (better than suspension-of-disbelief) answers based on Real World science that are not necessarily constrained to the known limits of Real World science. Contrast with the hard-science, science-fiction and internal-consistency tags. This tag may not be used alone. This tag may not be used with the science-fiction, hard-science, or internal-consistency tags.

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Why might a plant evolve a brain and the ability to move?

The "Why" isn't so important. Evolution is fickle; it cares more about the fact that they would survive, than why it would do it in the first place. Look at the Platypus. A multi-cellular life-form w …
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What would be a plausible mechanism for conception involving an arbitrary number of gametes?

I don't remember the exact volume it was mentioned, but the Yeerks in Animorphs were a species of slugs that reproduced by having around three of their kind "combine", and then replicate into many off …
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