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Marvin the Martian

These stories help scientific understanding. 

In 9/11 hero mutt cloned

Boffin

"The physical similarities are uncanny. He's the spitting image of the Trakr that I first met in 1995. He has exactly the same markings, the way he moves, everything. Very alert, very intelligent and intuitive."

So we have five baby shepherds uncannily moving like baby shepherds do (well, if the little 1pound Trustt walks like a 45pound shepherd, we're deep in the twilight zone I admit)? Stop the presses!

More interestingly, you have 5 genetically identical dogs, and even the teareyed owner notices four of them hardly resemble the 6th. Why? Because DNA goes only so far. Same DNA and different methylation (i.e., activation of genes) pattern... and even if they start the same (as in identical twins) then the differences increase over the lifetime.

Newsflash! Dawkins has been consciously lying to you for 20years, disclaiming epigenetics and all other non-"DNA=sourcecode" findings. (Well, might be sourcecode, but only if you put lots of power and parameters separately in the compiler.) Good thing he's been replaced by less of a mediawhore.

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