Potatoes Memes

Behold, the pinnacle of evolutionary reasoning! This presenter's flawless logic suggests we're just two chromosomes away from being potatoes. Of course, by that same logic, I'm also just a few genetic tweaks away from being Einstein, yet here I am explaining potato memes. The number of chromosomes has absolutely nothing to do with evolutionary complexity or species relatedness - fruit flies have 8 chromosomes but nobody's giving TED talks about how we're "38 chromosomes away from buzzing around garbage." Next up: discovering you share 50% of your DNA with bananas, making you officially half-banana, which explains a lot about some of my former students.