92% Of Your DNA Is From Your Parents. 8% Is Now From...

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[aeonkwiz]

1:48 Lost opportunity: "They're on every breath you take, On every move you make, They are watching you." 🤣

[davidanderson_surrey_bc]

I'm absolutely certain that if such a global eradication of viruses were to be undertaken, governments all over the world would keep vaults full of samples as a backup and for research.

[kingcosworth]

It's not the viruses that scare me, it's how governments handle them that's frightening.

[treyweaver]

Well done! MD for 30 years, Molecular Biology undergrad. Though this has been known since the 1980s, I remember Retroviruses being a significant part of the Human DNA, also Transposons, learned this as an undergrad. Transposons were discovered in 1983. Suspect you have at least an Undergrad degree in Biological sciences, perhaps this is even taught in High School Biology though that was a long time ago for me, lol.

[thehangmansdaughter]

It's true that a little dirt will do you good. A study here in NZ on kids from farms and kids from cities found that allergies were much higher in city kids. So, when my kids were little I let them play in the mud, I didn't sanitize every surface in my house and let them touch "dirty" things, like playground equipment that I hadn't cleaned (yes, I've seen it happen).

[thebigdog]

For those of you who have noticed that Thoughty 2's mustache is gone. It has finally found out the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. So it has now returned to its own dimension.

[isiahfriedlander]

0.2% of my DNA is patented by a pharmaceutical company

[TangentFuture]

From birth to like 10 i was homeless. Dumpster food. Shelters in the woods. Drug abuse. Unsanitary environments(No pity parties).
Ive never been sick in my life and im 35. I believe my exposure helped boost my immune system.

[El-Rico]

Without virusses, mammals would still lay eggs: The protein syncytin, which is essential for formation of the placenta, originally came to the genome of our ancestors, and those of other mammals, via a retrovirus infection. Placental structures have also developed in non-mammalian vertebrates. The first placenta-like structures probably arose in egg-laying vertebrates, around 400 million years ago in fish, 150 million years ago in mammals, and 25 million years ago in Mabuya lizards. It seems likely that these events took place after retrovirus infection followed by capture of env genes, which allowed fusion of cells in the placenta. This repurposing of a retroviral gene occurred randomly and rarely in evolution, but it clearly imposed an advantage, as placental-mediated live birthing has endured.

[sophiaisabelle]

DNA is a topic that needs to be explored more often. Genetics have come a long way.

[jbruck]

As an ex biophysicist/System biology researcher, I am impressed by the depth of understanding of ecosystems dynamics and evolution that seems to transpire from this popular science presentation. I wonder if the Presenter Himself has such a good general knowledge on all the topocs of his show - or he has a great team...

Amazing writing comes on top of that. Rare combination -
keep up the good work!❤

[ShadowSlayerX]

"The imperfection that makes our world perfect" this man understands life

[enigma]

It's almost like everything has been carefully and beautifully crafted to have synergistic relationships.

[ExpensivePizza]

The thought of humans trying to inject every animal species on earth with a needle sounds very dystopian.
The WEF has entered the chat...

[DreamRydeMusic]

Thoughty2 is the type of guy who opens his bag of chips with scissors

[Delta_Tesseract]

Everything is interconnected. Everything & everyone. Period.

[kaluca]

I stopped being afraid of viruses when i realized that the Earth is basically like a huge bubble/recycling bin.

[paulperano]

These days 46% many peoples DNA is from the mail man, pool boy or that hot guy in the office.

[Ritchuds]

The 8% is actually from all the bodies I ate in the forest.

[alexismerrilldragonqueen]

I was on pins and needles waiting for the part where bacteria took over in place of the viruses. 😂