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For first time in a billion years, two lifeforms have merged into one (www.independent.co.uk)

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‘The first time it happened, it gave rise to all complex life,’ scientists say

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (6 children)

How sure are they that his hasn't happened in the last billion years?

Maybe it happens once every 1,000 years but they've all died out before humans were able to observe it. It's not like things like this tend to leave much of a fossil.

And if you don't like 1,000, there's a few orders of magnitude to reconsider between there and 10^9.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some real fucking pedantic bitches on this site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The scientific method is pedantry made manifest.

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