Blinding folks with Canmephian Science...

[strredwolf]

Researchers trim count of human genes to 20,000-25,000

And the rest is junk -- about 38.5 million, from my guess out of reading the article.  Plenty of room!  Therefore, the Cobrawolf gengineering techniques of optimizing a person's DNA like it was a hard drive and using the resulting space to code up shapeshifters is rather plausible.

Comments

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

It's sort of like XIP code (eXecute In Place), but with a ton of long-range jumps that they could shorten up, and all the junk can be tossed to the outer realms.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Well, thing is that the junk does actually have a reason to exist. Imagen how much more devastating radiation would be if 100% of the genetic material was used rather then the current 10-20%

Re: Hmm. Perhaps.

[shadesfox.livejournal.com]

Actually, a lot of the data is the same between humans as well. A lot of mutations were lost about 74,000 years ago when the human race was nearly wiped out.