An article in today's web-version of the NY Time (appearing in the Health
Section) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/health/reuters-genome.html
quotes Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the federal government's Human
Genome Project, as saying that "a number of big surprises will come out
of genetics research in the coming weeks." One of the big surprises:
``There is now clear evidence that (the junk genes) have been performing a
number of functions for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.''
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