![]() ![]() ![]() In Act II, he charts a completely different course and reviews much of the history of the Iroquois Nation in his neck of the woods in western New York. Astonishingly, Graffin cites data to suggest that as much as 43% of our human DNA is actually of viral origin. It’s hard to argue with him, given that the human body harbors ten times as many bacterial cells as it does human cells. ![]() Opposing the traditional narrative of constant Darwinian competition as the driving force of evolution, he points out that the human body – as well as every other large organism, from dandelion to dingo – is actually a conglomerated mishmash of all sorts of bacterial and viral components that cooperate to create coherent and smoothly functional species. He starts at the (very) beginning with a fascinating review of the origin of multi-cellular life about one billion years ago. The author performs with the band in 2007.Īs he did in his more biographical – and more musical – Anarchy Evolution (2010), Graffin covers a lot of ground here. ![]()
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