Re: tree-climbing hominids

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In article <hubey.814923930@pegasus.montclair.edu> hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey) writes:
>From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
>Subject: Re: tree-climbing hominids
>Date: 28 Oct 1995 20:05:33 -0400

>But there's more. There's info from Briten and Davidson (1969)
>Science, vol 165 that plots 'genetic information' (in DNA
>nucleotide pairs per haploid cell) against 'time of origin'.

Mark,

It is many years since I read any publications from Britten and Davidson.
However, you cannot use the quantity of DNA, as nucleotide pairs per haploid
cell, as a measure of "genetic information". This is because of the vast
amount of DNA that is non-coding (though not always with no function,
structural or otherwise). In 1969, this picture was not obvious, although the
research areas B & D worked in *were* the various classes of repetitive DNA.

Robert

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