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The answers to all these questions, for those curious:
Pre-luvian seems like they were aiming for "antediluvian" E: ... I mean pre-diluvian
Or: before Noah's flood 5,000 years ago. The flood that carved the grand canyon in something less than 40 days and 40 nights.
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It kept going for 150 days before it started receding. Still, the grand canyon's way older even so.
Regarding #8: 99% of what's currently considered junk DNA is indeed junk. While we still discover new regulatory functions for a tiny fraction of intronic and intergenic sequences, we do not rely on lack of evidence of function to conclude that most of it is junk. There is positive evidence that only a small fraction of the human genome can be under selective pressure for its sequence.
About 50% of junk DNA are repeat sequences derived from transposons and viruses which are now inactive. A tiny fraction of these have taken on regulatory functions as the genes around them have adapted to their insertion. Most are still junk. There isn't strong selective pressure to shrink genome sizes and plenty of mechanisms that increase it. There are species of Allium (garlic and onion families) with genome sizes ranging from about 2x to 8x the size of the human genome.
I can expand on 9. Gravity goes in a constant linear direction for all intents and purposes. This allows for easy creation of right angles. Once you’ve got an L, string, and a small weight you can start doing some real cool shit if you dedicate your entire life to carving brick and stone.
For right angles in particular, the Egyptians have known for millennia that stretching out a circular rope of 12 cubits into a 3-4-5 triangle will produce a right angle.
About #4, it wasn't so much "lost" as "thrown out because it didn't really matter and tape is expensive". But it was refound in the late 00s.
Also, the pineal gland was named that way because, and this will shock nobody, it's shaped like a pinecone. This question is about as smart as asking why the middle finger is in the middle
Antediluvian