Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Is There an Opportunity for Mutations?
The way to lookat isis we have, there's this 12 % variation on average in terms of whatever it's copy number variability. So you can say there's an opportunity for mutations or stuff to happen. But another way to look at that is to say, 88 of the stuff in the normal case is stable. And so the thesis is that that 12% that's able to change is good, it's healthy. Its, it's directly tied to this idea of competitive advantage, natural selection. It's sort of built into the overall structure to allow us to evolve.
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