Man Unable Or Possibly Just Unwilling To Justify Majority Of Self
“Over millions of years, essential genes haven’t changed very much, while junk DNA has picked up many harmless mutations. Scientists at the University of Oxford have measured evolutionary change over the past 100 million years at every spot in the human genome. ‘I can today say, hand on my heart, that 8 percent, plus or minus 1 percent, is what I would consider functional,’ Chris Ponting, an author of the study, says. And the other 92 percent? ‘It doesn’t seem to matter that much.’”