stackyFACTSYour existential dread isn't uniquely human; you're essentially just a very anxious piece of fruit. Basic cellular machinery, like copying DNA and regulating cell division, is so fundamentally ancient that nature simply copy-pasted the code from early plant life directly into our primate ancestors.
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