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No, there’s multiple options. Our biology is based on endless optimization of one of them not the only possibility.


All life we know of originates from one type of single-cellular life, the last universal common ancestor (LUCA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor


Which is unsurprising as any original self replicating organisms that showed up significantly later would be at a massive disadvantage, and early competition had billions of years to find a winner.

It’s worth remembering that evolution can end get stuck in suboptimal solutions because they still beat 99.999…% of the possibilities. Our blindspot is an issue but it showed up early enough that there’s been vast amounts of optimization based around that initial slightly sub optional feature.


Exhibit b.

Getting cancer, or specifically short telomeres, is a suboptimal evolutionary outcome that other some other mammals don’t have

But because the issue appears after we reproduce, it passes on




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