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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Mutation Is the Path to New Things
This mutation is really useful in the current environment of the genome. When it was moving from bad to bad, it couldn't care less for that mutation. But now that it's moving from human to human, it's moving way better by orders of magnitude. In terms of the evolutionary history teaching us about the future, it basically tells us here's the regions that are currently mutating. Here's the region that are most likely to mutate going forward. As you're building a vaccine, here's what you should be focusing on as well.
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