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by philipkglass 551 days ago
Do you mean biological evolution? There are a vast number of useful materials that terrestrial organisms cannot evolve because they're incompatible with the chemical/physical conditions inside living things. Organisms never evolved the use of aluminum structures, for example, even though aluminum has many useful properties and is more terrestrially abundant than carbon.
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High temperature superconductor could in principle be inside an organism, because it's not fixed to a specific element. And energy savings would be immense.