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Evolution is a powerful force capable of finding elegant solutions to challenges faced by living systems. It has produced a wide variety of complex structures such as intricate gene-regulatory networks, distributed societies of cooperating eusocial insects, and sophisticated forms of intelligence including the human brain. Yet all of this evolution comes from a single instance of life, with common ancestry and a basis in DNA, RNA, and proteins. How much of the evolutionary process that we see on Earth is, i
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