Hard on the heels of the Man With Two Fingerprints, more news about the same guy (a transplant recipient):
It turns out Long’s DNA is different around his body.
His chest and head hair for instance only show his DNA, whereas swabs from his cheeks, lip, and tongue show mixed DNA from both men.
Interestingly enough, when samples of Long’s semen were taken the DNA from it only came up as belonging to his German donor.
Fabienne Lang, “Man’s Semen Only Shows DNA of His Donor after Bone Marrow Transplant” at Interesting Engineering
Well first, as commenter Latemarch put it at the previous story, “He is still the same “person.” His DNA has changed but he’s still the same person. Another blow to materialism…think about it.”
If he had kids, who would they look like?, one wonders. Talk about not knowing who your ancestors are.
See also: The larger lesson from the story of the Man With Two Fingerprints Remember when DNA was Certain? When people were executed or spent life in prison on account of DNA evidence? “Your DNA is on it” was like Holy Writ. DNA was the guarantor of the Darwinian selfish gene. And now… The worst thing that ever happened to Darwinism was DNA mapping.
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