gjm comments on Open Thread Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 29 February 2016 02:43:49PM 1 point [-]

Humans have hundreds of orphan genes unique among mammals.

There's some reason to think that most human "orphan genes" are actually just, so to speak, random noise. Do you have good evidence for hundreds of actually useful orphan genes?