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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Difference Between Humans and Worms?

There's one gen but t it kind of plays slightly different roles depending on which or when it's talking to exactly. For example, you can have an important transcription factor that is mostly used for metabolic purposes in the major tissues, but could be used for a different function in a neurance. And it's amazingly clever that lution did all this without any foresight. Ri withny selection is an amazing thing. But i was going to add to a your point about the the number. So this came up at a meeting recently, where some one was discounting the importance of seelganse based on this argument that there had so few cells and humans have so many. What those

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