Jon Perry - Genetics & Evolution Stated Casually | Do "Essential Genes" debunk evolution? Evolutionary Question #26 @StatedCasually | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 1 day ago
Here's the longer talk: youtu.be/S4I8YjMgV6E

Humans are thought to have over 2,472 "essential genes". We need these genes to survive. Well, at some time in the past, our ancestors didn't have all 2,472 of those essential genes. How then, did they survive?

The secret is to flip the question: How do non-essential genes become essential? Here Jon Perry discusses several ways in which this happens.

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