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By inhibiting beak DNA, scientists made chicken embryos with dinosaur snouts.
In other words, DNA is like a codebase where version control is done by writing new functions with same name as the old, and then counting on loading order.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-bird-grows-face-of-dinosaur
@WatchKeyPhone I believe this may be relevant to your interests.
@doppioslash having modded a lot of elder scrolls/fallout games, well, this actually explains a lot
@doppioslash Is DNA actually just CSS?
@doppioslash @HerraBRE Yep, we're the result of ~3.5 billion years of quick hacks which sort-of worked at the time, with nobody stopping to do any refactoring along the way.
@doppioslash "do you want Jurassic park? Cause this is how you get Jurassic park!"