You could be right; the cellular machinery hasn’t changed very much for ages, so it certainly could have gotten caught in a local optimum. We don’t know very much about what life looked like before modern cells, so we don’t know what our current cellular machinery competed against.
You could be right; the cellular machinery hasn’t changed very much for ages, so it certainly could have gotten caught in a local optimum. We don’t know very much about what life looked like before modern cells, so we don’t know what our current cellular machinery competed against.