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And so it begins (or continues, rather): you've got 45 years to come to terms with your laptop being smarter than you are.
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God says... C:\Text\DARWIN.TXT

me general rules in their appearance and disappearance as do single species, changing more or less quickly, and in a greater or lesser degree. A group, when it has once disappeared, never reappears; that is, its existence, as long as it lasts, is continuous. I am aware that there are some apparent exceptions to this rule, but the exceptions are surprisingly few, so few that E. Forbes, Pictet, and Woodward (though all strongly opposed to such views as I maintain) admit its truth; and the rule stric

> Equally intriguing, the total world-wide storage capacity is roughly the same as a single adult human’s DNA.

No.

  wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/technical/reference/human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz
  ...
  ==> RETR human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... done.
  Length: 892331003 (851M)
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Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB.
> Perhaps this alludes to all copies of DNA in a human body, which is much larger than 851MB.

I think you're being overly generous -- the OP clearly says "human DNA", and that fits the context of the rest of the post, which is talking about a single human. DNA that isn't human isn't human DNA.

The remarkable thing about DNA is that even though we have brain cells and nerve cells and liver cells and so on, they all have exactly the same DNA inside their cells, so there's no extra information there either.