[lbo-talk] Humans may harbor more than 100 genes from other organisms

[Joseph Catron]

"You're not completely human, at least when it comes to the genetic
material inside your cells. You—and everyone else—may harbor as many as 145
genes that have jumped from bacteria, other single-celled organisms, and
viruses and made themselves at home in the human genome. That's the
conclusion of a new study, which provides some of the broadest evidence yet
that, throughout evolutionary history, genes from other branches of life
have become part of animal cells ..."

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/03/humans-may-harbor-more-100-genes-other-organisms

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