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a recipe written in four letters, copied a billion times without proofreading.
counthumans carry about 20,000, fewer than a grape
namingsome are named sonic hedgehog, after the videogame
hitchhikersroughly 8 percent of your DNA is ancient virus
switchesgenes turn on and off, not just present or absent
sharedyou share half your genes with a banana