LATERAL GENE TRANSFER has been a promiscuous and widespread phenomena in living things, driven by ancient virus fragments. These mobile genetic elements are enormous sources of genetic diversity, and have demonstrably taken over the regulation of many organisms as well as driving evolution itself. All by creatures who are the ghosts in the machine, who do not eat, only reproduce. The little automatons behind the wheel.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022