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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

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How Much Freedom Do You Think We Have to Escape the Constraints of Our Genome?

How much freedom do we have to escape the constraints of our genome? You're making it sound like more and more we're discovering that our genome is actually has a lot of the story already encoded into it. I mean, if the genome has, if there's not much freedom, it's the butterfly effect. It's basically that in the short term, you can predict something extremely well by knowing the current state of the system. But a few steps down, it's very hard to predict based on the current knowledge.

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