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Could, but it also could be an indicator of "we don't really understand biology yet".

Biology is more complicated than maths/physics. Multiple extinction crises that shaped the world are still written into our genome and there can be very subtle adaptations at play.

People with certain patterns in their non-coding DNA are at much higher risk of ALS, a terrible disease [0] - it certainly looks that at least this part of DNA plays some role in our organisms.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38802183/




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