[Jaguarbhzrd]

We now know you didn't get all your genes from your ancestors ~ or even from mutations.

Please, enlighten me on this discovery, I have not heard of it.

Please post a link to such a discovery, because it would be very important, to say the least.

[muawiyah]

One of the first little tidbits reported out at the conclusion of the human genome project (where they were mapping the genome) was that, lo and behold, they found VIRUS genes.

Yup, it happened.

The same folks who thought we had MILLIONS of genes were flabbergasted. Of coure we don't have millions of genes, and not all of them came from mommy and daddy (all the way back).

Some folks continue to be flabbergasted and aghast at this discovery.