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I suspect we will soon learn that many organisms are ‘evolving distributively’ in the sense of exchanging DNA over evolutionary history, however the tardigrade is a fascinating specific example of the incredible and exotic intelligence of organisms. Of course, we will also discover that we were confused about DNA, and commensal transfer and exchange will turn out to have been a lot more of ‘what’s been going on’ than we are yet bold enough to imagine.