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\nOur “Junk DNA” Is More Important Than We Once Thought\n

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\nIn the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk.\nIn the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk.\n
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9:12
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12th - Higher Ed
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Science
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2023
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English
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genes, genomes, sequences, coding, differences, anthropology, genetics, dna, dna sequence, genomics, natural selection, evolution
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human, junk dna, non-coding dna, foxp2, human genome project, chimpanzee genome project, conserved sequence, human accelerated regions, har, human ancestor quickly evolved regions, haqer, expensive tissue hypothesis, natural history, genetic level, closest living, human uniqueness, human relatives, regulatory sequences, coding dna, long time, junk, important, long, mutations, proteins, fewer, conserved, guts, humanity, unique, hackers, genome, 000 genes, makes, search
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