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Where in our dna are instincts coded?
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RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded?
(December 4, 2018 at 6:12 am)ignoramus Wrote: We may have mapped most animal's genomes, but I don't think we have any idea what 80-90% of the junk dna is for?
Like the gif below and eg: new born sea turtles scrambling straight for the sea within minutes of being born so as to not get eaten.
Same as eg: deer, wild horses, giraffes etc, desperately trying to standup and follow mother within a few hours of being born for the same reasons.

Then again the question should be: do we even know what it would look like in the genome even if we found it?
Innate knowledge is probably only a tiny % of dna programming of a complex animal we aren't familiar with. We have lots to learn.

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It seems highly most innate neurologically driven behavior are directly coded into dedicated segments of the DNA. Instead, a large number of different segments, each playing multiple roles by interacting with different other sets of genes, play roles in configuring the brain with innate behavior drivers.
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Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by ignoramus - December 4, 2018 at 6:12 am
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by Anomalocaris - December 4, 2018 at 10:25 am
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by Gawdzilla Sama - December 4, 2018 at 10:29 am
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by Anomalocaris - December 4, 2018 at 4:01 pm
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by no one - December 4, 2018 at 1:23 pm
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by brewer - December 4, 2018 at 4:00 pm
RE: Where in our dna are instincts coded? - by Nay_Sayer - December 8, 2018 at 1:26 am

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