METABOLIC PATHWAYS are highly complex and interconnected. But like all other elements of living things, they were not built from scratch, but evolved by bolting on molecules that had evolved for other purposes, thus creating a patchwork of inefficient and maladapted works in progress, just as the human foot was built by a drunken committee from the foot of tree-living ancestors.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022