On: Enzymes from nine organisms combined to create new...

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But remember, that's evolution

It's like a very old system that has been patched and repatched over and over and never refactored.

10 steps that kinda works works.

Efficiencies only play a part when one resource is really limited, and even then there might be other ways of making up for it

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Well no, it try's to refactor its self, randomly deleting genes, until it deletes one which can be loved without, removing some vestigial pathway or organ.

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Yeah, that happens. But also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA