The Evolution of the Human Genome

As you go from the very simplest organisms to much more complex organisms, there is an accretion of domains. The proteins become longer with much more functionality but they've not done so by the standard theory of evolution. So we know that somehow organisms must have been able to move great chunks of the DNA around when under stress. That phasing down of the error correction is only done in a very tiny part of the genome. In fact, it's the part of the genomes that codes for immunoglobulins. These are the proteins that enable the system to capture a new virus or a new bacterium.

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