re: Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event

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Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.

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Yeah, soybeans and clover, and others. And have been around way longer than humans. I'm surprised that gene splicing hasn't been used to create nitrogen fixing corn, wheat, etc. People in the fertilizer business have worried about that for more than 50 years. Animals and plants are incredibly efficient at manufacturing their own chemicals, in ways that we don't understand yet. Chemicals that normally require high temperatures and pressures are made continuously in the human body. It's probably the next area of expansion for science.