What If Our DNA Stopped Mutating?

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Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be like if that stopped? What causes your DNA to change? How would your life immediately change without genetic mutations? And what would happen to humanity in the long run? What will happen to your genome? Would our genetic evolution be unrecognizable compared to now?

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