I like to think each living organism as a gigantic living git repository of successful experiments by evolution. No wonder a huge number of human inventions com

I like to think each living organism as a gigantic living git repository of successful experiments by evolution. No wonder a huge number of human inventions come out of either isolating naturally occurring compounds or mimicking some natural occurring behavior of some organism: plant/animal. Each time we lose an organism, we lose an entire repo of commits made over billions of years.