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Re:Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-ol... by perl4ever on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:47PM (#28465281)
"Hoyle and Wickramasinghe viewed the process of evolution in a manner at variance with the standard Darwinian model. They speculated that genetic material in the form of incoming pathogens from the cosmos provided the mechanism for driving the evolutionary engine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_from_Space

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Re:Massive animal species discovered in half-billion-year-ol... by andrewflnr on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:49PM (#28465662)
That is kind of hilarious in retrospect, but sad that Wickramasinghe is still clinging to it.
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