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From: josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Information Capacity of Human Genome
Keywords: Intelligence
Message-ID: <Nov.10.15.59.59.1988.4983@klaatu.rutgers.edu>
Date: 10 Nov 88 21:00:16 GMT
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In article <393@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@uceng.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
>The information content of the human genome is ~750 MB, of which
>a sizable fraction determines our basic brain structure.

... of which a fairly *small* fraction determines brain structure.
I have read estimates on the order of a few megabytes (smaller than
Common Lisp!).  Of course, this is very compressed, like a fractal
description of an image...

--JoSH