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How Could Life Evolve From Cyanide?

The Joy of Why

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The Evolution of Bacteria

The ancestral proteini, sort of looks inferior or sick. It's messed up. But the amazing thing about experimental evolution anwhat what we saw is that the organism was able to recover from the small function in a matner of just tens of generations. So it made sense, if you think about it, because they need to get along thiss. This thiss a survival thing. And and life needs to find a way. And life did. Then we spent the really long years to understand how this solution came about,. What mutations did bacteria accumulate to deal with this old problem?

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