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"Is it my magnetic personality?"

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[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724141608.htm"]DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds[/URL]

[/QUOTE]OTOH, there's the [URL="http://www.gregbear.com/books/darwinsradio.cfm"][I]Darwin's[/I][/URL][I] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Radio"]Radio[/URL][/I] premise ...

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[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724141608.htm"]DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds[/URL]
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Well, if humans use only 10 percent of their brains,
and only 8.2 percent of their DNA,
there must be SOMETHING they use the other 81.8 percent of ...

:smile: (I know, it doesn't add up logically.)

[QUOTE=davar55;379745]Well, if humans use only 10 percent of their brains,[/QUOTE]It is amazing how that fallacy still has going power.[QUOTE=davar55;379745]and only 8.2 percent of their DNA,[/QUOTE]Perhaps the rest is lead-in and ECC information so the proper [strike]sector[/strike] gene boundaries can be found.

[QUOTE=rogue;379582] [URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724141608.htm"]DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds[/URL]
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It should say that only 8.2% of human DNA is evolutionarily conserved. That approach omits functional DNA that has recently changed (eg the bits that make us human instead of apes). But I've no idea how much DNA that might be.

Chris

[QUOTE=davar55;379745]Well, if humans use only 10 percent of their brains,
and only 8.2 percent of their DNA,
there must be SOMETHING they use the other 81.8 percent of ...

:smile: (I know, it doesn't add up logically.)[/QUOTE]

then in theory since 8.2/0.1 = 82 82% is the most amount of genetics that should be related to the brain.

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this is science, this is amazing, this is terrifying.
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