"In this way the reconstruction of a minimal discovered form does not indicate how these functions were developed, but it rather points only to the height of the current state, the height of the development, which allows such a deep secondary simplification. Here is an example: imagine a planet that is a home to various geometric shapes, where some high-order fractals that recently underwent a significant evolution decided to understand how the life (geometrical in this case) originated in their world. Exploring the curves of the local flora, including all those growing quadrature cycloids occupying trochoid bushes, hyperbolas and parabolas, polyhedral fauna, including the Platonic bodies - these small cubes hastily escaping from predatory dodecahedrons, geometrical minds came to the conclusion that, most likely, life has evolved from very simple forms. Isn't it nice to imagine a primordial predator as a tetrahedron? Isn't it logical to put a perfect and simple shape in the beginning of the circle of life? In a geometrical way this would be an overgrown point.  ...Then fractal scientists from this planet began to look for the simplest forms of life and have found that it is indeed represented by very simple circles of different sizes. However, looking at those circles with a powerful microscope, they found multiple tiny teeth making up the circles. It turned out that these very simple circles occurred by the reduction of  extremely complicated polyhedrons."
-Ivanov-Petrov (original in Russian http://ivanov-petrov.livejournal.com/1410301.html)