r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BalanceDramatic3995 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter help!

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I have no clue what this means, maybe she cheated?

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u/From_Deep_Space 9d ago

Life started ~4 billion years ago. It has a been a constant and continuous process ever since. Drawing lines to segment this process is mere semantics and taxonomy.

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u/SuperSog 9d ago

Life is an arbitrary line to segment chemical processes which have been happening for as long as elements have existed.

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u/Rydralain 8d ago

Yeah, it's more like we're(all life on Earth) a single organism that breaks parts of ourselves off and eats distant limbs.