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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
It doesn't. Step by tiny step random mutations that grant a fraction of a percentage of survivability, multiplied across millions of generations.
Yes it does, assuming there's a benefit to be had along the way. It doesn't have to be as effective as it is today to confer some tiny amount of benefit. It just has to be better than those without the mutation.