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2021-06-09 Science & Technology

The Fastest Evolving Regions of the Human Genome

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Posted by 3dc 2021-06-09 06:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Note the microbiome evolution too. Also the regulatory function of supposed "Junk DNA"

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-09 06:34|| 2021-06-09 06:34|| Front Page Top

#2 One change every hundred letters over 6 million years gets passed down.
Each human has about 100 mutations from their parents but almost none get passed down.

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-09 06:37|| 2021-06-09 06:37|| Front Page Top

#3 1/2 of our DNA are due to virus infections since the beginning of DNA.

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-09 06:49|| 2021-06-09 06:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Since we have wars and purges that kill millions one wonders if political memes are selecting preferred genes or micro-biomes

Posted by 3dc 2021-06-09 06:55|| 2021-06-09 06:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Those would be the religious tendency genes.

Posted by KBK 2021-06-09 08:45|| 2021-06-09 08:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Looking about, I sometimes think the self-preservation gene is in decline.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-09 14:27|| 2021-06-09 14:27|| Front Page Top

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