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"Each one of us receives approximately 60 new mutations in our genome from our parents."
Great-great-great-great-grandparents, down to you. Most people have 23 chromosome pairs, which means that at least 18 of the gggg-gr generation didn't pass any of their genome to you, assuming there are no duplicates for that generations (because of criss-crossing lines of descent). The cell over the first 46 is just an illustration, not to show which ones were and were not, since there's (probably, usually) no way to know exactly.
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5 posted on 06/12/2011 10:57:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv; Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro

Does this mean we can tell Magneto to shut up?


8 posted on 06/12/2011 11:12:44 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (To view the FR@Alabama ping list, click on my profile!)
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To: SunkenCiv

That is a singularly excellent piece of HTML there SCiv!


10 posted on 06/12/2011 11:27:00 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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