Sunday, January 27, 2013

Virtually Identical?

Thought for today from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's book My Stroke of Insight:

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences. So biologically, as a species, you and I are virtually identical to one another at the level of our genes (99.9%).

If you say so, Dr. Taylor. But that .01% sure seems to loom large much of the time.

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