The genetic code itself is redundant—some amino acids are encoded by multiple codons—creating unused information capacity that could theoretically be repurposed, but evolution didn't discover or use these optimizations because there's no immediate fitness advantage to doing so.
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Unidentified Speaker — A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George… [olmHHxFQwxo]Evidence Quote
“You had this extra information you could have used for other things.”
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