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free_agent's avatar

You write, "Since horizontal transfer probably doesn't work so well in multi-celled organisms".

That's true, but it's by design -- the cells of a multi-celled organism can cooperate only because they "know" that their neighbor cells are genetically identical.

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dmytryl's avatar

The times are in the 20th century for the most part. We have no clue what genomes bacteria had a billion years ago.

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