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Re:The 44 Chromosome Man by pash on Saturday July 02, 2011 @11:06PM (#2722959)
> As the 44 chromosome man shows, this sort of change starts out pretty rare. Right now having this particular set of chromosomes is probably a 1 in 7 billion sort of thing.

Guffaw.

Re:The 44 Chromosome Man by pash on Sunday July 03, 2011 @11:46PM (#2725303)
Those of you down-voting this comment should read up on conditional probabilities and Bayes's theorem. (Hint: there are only seven billion people alive, and very few of them have their chromosomes counted.)