Think your DNA is 100 percent Homo sapiens? Think again. A recent study in the journal Nature reports that at least 40 million years ago, our primate ancestors "invited" a gene from an infecting virus into their genomes. Because this phenomenon adds novelty to a species' DNA makeup, it may represent a newly discovered mode of evolutionary change.
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http://www.erderetten.de George Church, Pioneer in Synthetic Biology, Harvard & MIT, USA (c) Brinzanik/Hülswitt/Kreis... Via Gerd Moe-Behrens 
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Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit, Juan Enriquez sweeps across time and space to bring us to the present moment -- and shows how technology is revealing evidence that suggests rapid evolution may be under way. Via Sue Tamani
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