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Biomimicry
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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From my readings, I don't think this is the case. Lignin degradation evolved rapidly with terrestrial plants. Coal and petrified wood is more due to geological events and swamps for example. Evolving ligninases is trivial for bacteria and fungi.