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[Fullmetal Alchemist] Did humans evolve naturally and if so how did the soul evolve?
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Ironically for a setting that talks so much about the soul and it's value they never actually establish that souls exist. One person (the father of the faux elric brothers) develops a way to make redwater and therefor eventually a philosophers stone out of plants. So either 1. plants have souls or 2. nothing has souls and the force that animates organic matter is simply extractable by alchemy, the more something can move and think the more you get for melting it.