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5:55They've done a thorough analysis of the genome and found that up to 7% of the DNA obeys these kinds of different weird rules. 7% that's one in 14. So one in 14 genes that's not a joke. >> That's that's pretty statistically significant as we like to say. >> Yes. Exactly. Like that's something that you do have to worry about if we want to like get a really comprehensive idea of how genetics affects outcomes and all that stuff. So, we're living through kind of a quiet revolution in the understanding of heredity. And in this episode, what I want to do is go through how it all started 200 years ago. We're going to start with Mandel. Then I'm going to take you through some of the
6:36history of the field and then why this particular paper is happening now and not 10 years ago or 20 years ago. There's some key technological advancements that have happened in recent years that is enabling this kind of analysis and it's very very cool. There's an interesting there's a a mutual friend that we have that had been doing work around some of this epigenetic stuff uh you know through