Exactly. Not too terribly long ago, estimates for the number of human genes ranged as high (or higher) than 100,000. Instead, we found significantly fewer genes

Exactly. Not too terribly long ago, estimates for the number of human genes ranged as high (or higher) than 100,000. Instead, we found significantly fewer genes, but with much more complicated regulatory networks and novel mechanisms (such as whole classes of regulatory RNAs.)