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How much information is in DNA?

2 pointsby crescit_eundoabout 4 hours ago

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rhelzabout 1 hour ago
In any case, 6.2 billion bits (interestingly enough, almost exactly as much information which is on an audio CD which you used for your romantic mixtapes) is an upper bound.<p>This rules out pretty much every nutty theory which evolutionary psychologists propose. Such as we evolved for altruism, we evolved to believe in religion, etc etc. Complete B.S. Exactly how much information would you need to specify a behavior like being predisposed to a belief in religion??? There&#x27;s less than 80 minutes worth of music&#x27;s worth of information in our genomes, and most of that is concerned with just keeping us alive.<p>You are not predisposed to be anything. Go create the kind of person you want to be.