Did you know that you are only ten percent human?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
A week after coming down with the swine flu I’d say that sounds about right. Although my gut symbionts fared even worse – after a few days of fever they all bailed out (=:o).
That’s ten percent more than John Boehner, so I can’t be doing too badly.
10% human with the rest being thetan.
I thought everybody knew that. It’s pretty old news.
nalbar
Fifty years ago most biologists thought Barbara McClintock of Cornell was nuts, not just because she preferred jeans to white gloves, but because she talked about genes ‘jumping’ from species to species. Now we know that a considerable amount of our genome is transferred from other species (often by viruses) and not always inherited with variations as the neo-Darwinists of the last century stipulated.
That makes the legislation forbidding hybrids (re: Colbert Report) downright silly.