Mutations in Humans — Armand Leroi / Serious Science

Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the ways to understand the functions of all human genes, Cyclopia or holoprosencephaly and what is physical beauty.

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'We are all mutants. I estimated some years ago and this has been borne out by more modern analyses that the average child, the average baby that is born is afflicted with something like 300 mutations that cause it to be less healthy than it might be otherwise. So we are all riddled with them. '

Armand Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College London

Identifying Adaptive Mutations: http://serious-science.org/identifying-adaptive-mutations-3837
Genes and the Environment: http://serious-science.org/genes-and-the-environment-9770

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