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DNA it's a fairly fragile molecule
breaking and coming back together in
your body all the time whereas protein
it's built for resilience that's the
stuff that holds our bodies together
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we don't have dinosaur DNA because they
died out far far too long ago so it's
still the age of dinosaurs structure of
a birds means this is something that's a
heavily modified dinosaur what do you
think about a dinosaur the size of a
chicken a chicken is a dinosaur the size
of a chicken
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we found there's resistance to bending
downwards but there's not a resistance
to bending back
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the development of the embryo it's as
close as we can get to the mechanism of
dinosaurs becoming a bird without a time
machine
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the roadblock now is that even in humans
even through flies we don't understand
how the genome itself is involved
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