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Someone still has to build them. And buy them.
I suppose it's possible, but the fact that it is, in fact, DNA is enough to suggest it's from the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). If it shares the same ultra-conserved ribosomal etc sequences, then it's even more likely from LUCA.
Re:What does randomness look like? on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:14PM (#4955233)
This is exactly how they determine species distributions in ecology as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_distribution

Uniform dispersion would suggest some territoriality aspect of the species, and clumped dispersion would suggest a heterogeneity of resources (or any other hypothesis that could then be tested).

Re:Do It Yourself Masters in Financial Engineering on Saturday January 22, 2011 @12:22PM (#2130649)
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