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Thread #171980 Message #4163006
Posted By: Steve Shaw
19-Jan-23 - 07:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Neuroscience-how your brain really works
Subject: RE: BS: Neuroscience-how your brain really works
Well the problem is that "DNA" has become a catch-all in the realm of popular science (or potted science). DNA is one hundred percent shared by all living organisms bar some viruses. The real science talks instead about genome sequences, the millions of individual nucleotide differences, insertions and deletions, mutation, gene activation and inactivation, gene duplications and a lot more besides. "We share 99% of DNA" is a less-than-half-truth lifted straight out of the pages of New Scientist or some other multicoloured glossy non-peer-reviewed mag. It doesn't help.