Human evolution
Posted: May 9th, 2021, 7:03 pm
The Belgian diet thread in Beerpig’s snug evolved into a discussion about DNA.
That prompted my recollection of this YouTube video, which some might find interesting:
https://youtu.be/oXfDF5Ew3Gc
servodude wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:As for DNA, of course there's far more variation within humans than between an average human and a gorilla
I get your point... but back in the day the rules of thumb were:
Humans share 98% DNA with gorillas
99% with chimps
and all the variation within the human species is in the last 0.5%
or at least that's what was drilled in to us a reason not to give up on the convergence of a Genetic Algorithm fitting a cost function: small changes can have very radical effect on phenotype.
-sd
That prompted my recollection of this YouTube video, which some might find interesting:
https://youtu.be/oXfDF5Ew3Gc