Sleeping beauties: the mystery of dormant innovations in nature and culture (Ep 104)
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The Origins of Genes
In the book, you talk about an unexpected discovery in the last six to eight years. You say lineages come up with completely new genes from scratch. Tell us about these de novo origins of genes. I think historically, the idea is that traditional view is traced back to Francois Jacob about duplication. But it turns out that once a large enough number of genomes or mostly eukaryotic genomes were available to compare that they are against one another, it became clear that this de novo origination of genes does actually occur quite frequently.
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