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Re:Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food by jibal on Sunday September 10, 2023 @11:05PM (#37462400)
P.S. "The idea that there is a tree of sexual reproduction that can attribute for the current variation in genetic material has been disproven."

No, it hasn't, and existence of horizontal gene transfer is not relevant to that erroneous claim.

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Re:Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food by jakear on Monday September 11, 2023 @11:27AM (#37468713)
If you want to actually argue you should make an actual argument. The existence of plasmids proves my point, you've supplied no evidence for yours.
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