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From: National Science Foundation Update nsf-upd...@nsf.gov
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:47:36 -0600 (CST)
Subject: The Most Genes in an Animal? Tiny Crustacean Holds the Record
The Most Genes in an Animal? Tiny Crustacean Holds the Record
Fascinating! Does this take us arrogant human's down a notch?
I must object though to the conclusion that the water flee has the most genes,
followed almost immediately by the admission that we don't know much about the
genome of most organisms. Why can't they just say The most gene of any known
That raises a number of interesting questions.
1. Is there more survival advantage in a higher number of genes or in a lower
number of genes? On the one hand Daphnia has a 50% greater chance of random
mutation from external factors - on the other hand, Daphnia has a 50% greater
chance of
How many memes does a mind have?
What would be needed to reconstruct a mind?
-J.
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I bet you somebody will post something in the next day claiming that humans
have fewer genes because they have a larger brain “instead”.
I will pre-perjoratize that idea as crap.
Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of
Parks, Raymond
I should be quiet because this is not my area.
But the evo-devo people around me seem very often to say that, in the
domain of large multicellular organisms, much of the change between
species comes from altering regulatory pathways and systems, not
generally from altering (numbers of) genes, or
On 4 Feb 2011 at 14:33, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I bet you somebody will post something in the next day claiming that humans
have fewer genes because they have a larger brain instead.
As the saying goes, what counts isn't the size of your
genome, it's how you use it.
To a first order
