Everything I read on this topic (not a lot) amazes me .. including the
recent stuff about the role of RNA and viruses, RNA and its capacity for
turning genes on and off and the possible therapeutic uses of this. And
it turns out that the Human Genome map is, I believe, mostly a map of
protein producing DNA. Junk DNA always seems a suss idea. That most of
our cells are not our own and most of the varied creatures on/in us are
microbial is somehow liberating. Not only do we not have a unified self
we now don't have a unified body either. The world is as weird as
poets think.
chris (the other one, mansell)
> The bacterial lateral
> gene transfer as code transferring on the horizontal between species and
> genres which breaks any limited notion of teleology assigning life to an
> always hoped for new human god as the god of procreation in a flower
> pot, still.
Did you know that bacteria swap genes with humans in human tummies?
But what makes genes? Answer: the virus did it.
And do you still think heterosexuals make babies?
Here is what scientists have to say. Best wishes, Chris Jones.
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