BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | We're all mutants, say scientists
We're all mutants? Ha, feel that liberation? No, me neither. Although it does make 28 Days/Weeks Later seem like an apocalyptic fantasia if we're already mutants anyway.
But what's this story got to do with NCT? Well, DNA is the way our species communicates down through the ages. It's not a spoken word, but something far more primal. We literally 'embody' this media. Of course, it doesn't service notions of art, civilisation, or love, but DNA does tell us something about the microcosm of our genetic heritage. Yet, and as Heraclitus said, "character is fate."
