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Surprising, probably not, but still amazing in my opinion! Our last common ancestor was in the Pre-Cambrian and we still share genes. That information has been
by bglazer 11y ago
Surprising, probably not, but still amazing in my opinion! Our last common ancestor was in the Pre-Cambrian and we still share genes. That information has been preserved for billions of years!
- dekhn 11y agoSharing genes is nothing. That they have homolog levels of substitutability across 35% of the gene is surprising. I say this as somebody who has studied phylogenomics for a decade.