"Working out its role in a living organism could lead to technological advances, such as better organic solar cells and quantum-based electronic devices."
Sorry, but we just learned that everything "big" has already been invented, so these scientists should just drop it.
I mean, it's not shocking that life has evolved to take advantage of quantum effects. There's no difference between classical physics and quantum physics and metaphysics - it's all "environment," a series of rules which must be followed by bits of matter in a mathematical dance. As useful as it is to humanize Evolution, describing it as "selecting" more-fit individuals, there's no intelligence present. Evolution doesn't need to understand why something works before it utilizes it; evolution isn't a thing. It's a description of a trend, where things that are better at copying themselves tend to end up with more copies of themselves.
I call bullshit on you all the time, Charles, but you did well on this one.
Sorry, but we just learned that everything "big" has already been invented, so these scientists should just drop it.