• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    Man science is “hard”

    Its not 98%. But The DNA stays there because

    1. Little reason to get rid of it.
    2. Evolution is lazy. Its easier to just re-enable something already there. Its probably happened millions of times in our own evolution to the extent it became the most common genotype in the population
    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 hours ago

      Please enjoy this copy pasta from another comment I made:

      My brother in Christ, the joke is life wouldn’t work without this “junk” DNA. And if Arch users were to get rid of this “bloat”, they would literally dissolve.