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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by dustingetz on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:23PM (#43144836)
in evolutionary biology, almost all cells die, but some of those that survived evolved to become humans
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by taeric on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:39PM (#43144958)
Strictly, no? No cell has been alive through that whole process. Rather, many laid the foundations that lead that direction.

Yes, this is very much a Ship of Theseus argument. But, I think that is very apropos?

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by lolc on Sunday February 23, 2025 @05:55PM (#43154026)
I'm not a biologist but I thought there are no new cells, just old cells splitting.
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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by amarcheschi on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:04AM (#43147937)
The next logical steps to this is eugenetics, I'll pretend I didn't see this comment

BTW, we already tried that and it didn't work

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