Cyanobacteria
Intro in berkeley.edu
One of the most fundamental questions about intelligence in living creatures is a mystery and possibly even beyond the reach of natural sciences.
The earliest living creatures known to have existed upon planet Earth were first discovered in fossilized carbon embedded in basalt. The finding was made by A. Hickman in 1987 in Warrawoona Belt in Pilbara province of Western Australia. They were identified as cyanobacteria and dated about 3500 million years old.myBlog
These bacteria have no recognizable brains. Yet these very earliest life forms on planet Earth are doing an intelligent thing. They use sun power to generate atmosphere on Earth on which all future life forms depend but which they do not need by themselves - oxygen.
Brainless but brilliant!
How come?
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