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baqlast Tuesday at 6:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Why would biology be so hard? It’s only a billion years of evolution, after all. We’re dealing with billions of things all the time. /s


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dekhnlast Tuesday at 6:30 PM

Appreciate the sarcasm, but... it's really 3 billion years of evolution, with astronomical levels of actual entities living and dying in a dynamic world environment. Chemical reactions happening in nanoseconds. Polymers have extraordinarily complex behavior!