Tuesday, August 09, 2005

From the 'Journal of What we told you was true, isn't'

As scientist look deeper into the human genome, the discover how much they don't know. They also have to constantly revise their theories, like let's say evolution.
The classical thought was that because you and I are more complex than a jelly fish, we had evolved more genes," he said.

"That looks like it isn't the case."

He says despite the coral polyp's outwardly simple structure, its genome suggests it is biochemically very complex.