stackyFACTSComplexity is a total illusion, proven by the fact that a basic fern hovering in a damp corner has vastly more genetic packaging than you do. While mammals boast a pathetic handful of chromosomes, the unassuming adders-tongue fern hoards over 1,260 of them just to exist as a leafy weed.
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