"Junk" DNA must have a purpose, otherwise selection would have gotten rid of much of it. Why keep it around to serve as source of problems?
@JayMan471 @hbdchick Selective pressure on non-expressive DNA is clearly too low to pay for intra-genomic editing machines you're expecting.
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@Outsideness@hbdchick Deletions of functionless areas likely to have been favored. -
@JayMan471@hbdchick 'Likely' meaning what? Junk DNA is the fact, the selective hypothesis the counter-factual, no? - 8 more replies
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