Scientists have discovered that Grasses are smarter than other crops and are able to short cut evolution by stealing genes from their neighbors. Researchers from the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at University of Sheffield have found that the grasses are breaking the evolutionary rules which has been based on common descent, where natural selection acts on the genes passed from parent to offspring. According to Dr. Luke Dunning, the lead investigators of this finding " Grasses are acting like sponge, absorbing useful genetic information from their neighbors to out compete their relatives and survive in hostile habitats without putting in millions of years it usually takes to evolve these adaptations. These scientists have sequenced and