Gregg Braden

Human chromosome number two is the second largest chromosome in every cell of the body.

It's got about 1,200 or so genes in that chromosome.

And just one of them, gene TBR1, is responsible for most of the brain that we have for our neocortex.

So our humanness, our empathy, sympathy, compassion, love, our cognitive abilities, the mirror neurons, all these kinds of things are because that one gene.

Well, where this gets really interesting is where did chromosome 2 come from?

And scientists have the answer, but they don't like the answer because chromosome 2 is the product of a fusion.

Proceedings from National Academy of Sciences, the volume Genetics, says this very clearly.

We conclude that the origin of human chromosome 2 is the product of an ancestral fusion of

of telomere to telomere fusion of two preexisting chromosomes.

That does not happen in nature.

It can't happen in nature.

So here's what they're saying.

You got two fully formed, fully functional chromosomes.

And on the end are the telomeres that protect those chromosomes when the cells divide.

And that's why they're on the end.

They take the hit.

It's a trauma.

in a cell when those chromosomes are pulled apart and some of the DNA doesn't make it.

So nature puts telomeres on the end to take the hit so the good DNA remains intact and that's why it's on the ends.

Human chromosome two, those telomeres are right in the middle of the chromosome where they shouldn't be because those chromosomes were fused together.