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> evolution has spend quadrillions of hours doing just that

Magnitude pedantery incoming: 1 billion years is "only" about 10 trillion hours.

Thank goodness it was only one bacteria doing all that evolving!

Think of combined manpower. If you have 2 people working an 8 hour shift you've spent 16 hours.

/Pedantry crisis averted.

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Yeah, but it would be more-or-less in parallel, spread over however many organisms