00:00You weren't born in an egg because an ancient virus tapped your ancestors.
00:068% of your DNA wasn't written by humans.
00:10It's the work of ancient retroviruses.
00:13For eons, we called this junk DNA.
00:17We were wrong. This hitchhiker changed evolution forever.
00:22Meet Singsitin 1.
00:24Originally a viral infection, we hijacked it to build the placenta.
00:28This viral glue stops a mother's body from rejecting her baby as a foreign parasite.
00:35The enemy became the architect.
00:38Without this infection, humanity simply wouldn't exist.
00:43If you could delete that viral 8% from your body, would you risk it?
00:48Would you risk it? Comment below, because remember…
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