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That is far too reductive
by sloan 4y ago
That is far too reductive
- politician 4y agoHuman DNA is only 1% different than chimps. 1% is not that reductive.
- civilized 4y agoThis is a great way to put it.
- andsoitis 4y agoyour behavior and thinking is purely a function of your DNA?
- teawrecks 4y agoI mean, according to a physicalist's view of the human condition, yes. You are a function of the haploid cells your parents conceived you with, and the environment those cells responded to over your lifetime.
- ben_w 4y agoI would say that “and the environment” means “no, not purely a function of your DNA”.
- extrememacaroni 4y agoSometimes I wonder if hackernews ever does anything with the ideas it generates or if it just gets a kick out of generating them.
- dekhn 4y agoactually, that stat is completely and totally wrong. If you take the most similar parts of human and chimp DNA- just the well-aligned proteins- then yes, we differ by 1%. But that's not a metric that means much, if at all, since many aspects of phenotypes are not controlled by the difference in our protein coding regions.