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Even further.
And I like that you said fog.
It is pretty foggy.
And it gets foggier and foggier the further you try to see into the past.
Biology is, you basically study the survivors, broadly speaking.
And you're trying to put together their history based on whatever you can recover today.
What makes biology fascinating also led its progress.
it erased its own history in a way, right?
So you work with this four billion year product, that's genome, that's the DNA.
It's great.
It's a very dynamic, ever evolving chemical thing.
And so you will get some information, but you're not going to get much unless you know where to look because it is responding to the environment.
So bacteria is not primitive.
We should be very grateful to bacteria.
First of all, they are our great, great ancestors.
I like this quote by Douglas Adams.
Humans don't like their ancestors.
They rarely invite them over for dinner.
Yeah.
Right?