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117 | Sean B. Carroll on Randomness and the Course of Evolution

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

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Mutations Out of Three Billion Base Pairs

The genetic neck is being shuffled a lot in nature and in humanity, right? So. Ye, its it's a big number, cause i know how expedentials work. And then secondly, ye, not every gen is going to have a variant ounow you look through d and a. But over time, there's a lot of variation that's there. You and i differ by about one base in every well,. Our irish ancestry might make us a little more closely related, but a, it differ about one base out of a thousand. Inin three billion, that's three million bases that differ between you and i and between any two unrelated individuals in the population.

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