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		fvold on March 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The risks of cleaning with bleach and other disinf... You can't outgrow your lineage in evolution. We're monkeys. KFC is made of dinosaurs. Anything descended from bacteria would still be bacteria.

withinboredom on March 23, 2023 | [–]

They would change taxonomy to archea (see MatrixMan’s comment) thus no longer being bacteria.

These are all human issues, the “archea-bacteria” wouldn’t care what we called it, but fun to think about.

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