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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by danieltillett on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:26AM (#11534161)
Prions are one of those great examples that in biology every rule has an exception.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by hga on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:35AM (#11534234)
The rule I like here is that things like viruses and prions exist because they can.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by pklausler on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:19PM (#11535502)
Which may well be the only reason we exist, too.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by ethbro on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @01:41PM (#11536196)
http://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/

The most recent Radiolab was about an idea that the existence of cellular organelles are the product of an extremely unlikely merging of two cells that didn't immediately die afterwards.

Stemming from the observation that we had an extremely long period of simple life, coupled with a sudden explosion where life rapidly increased in size and complexity.

A 0.0...01% likelihood event will still happen, given an entire planet of simple cells and hundreds of millions of years.

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