Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20150307200513/@comment-14745711-20150311204606

It seems improbable to me that the Eldar could have a triple helix DNA system since well, how is that advantageous in any way? If you add a third strand you are simply just allowing for more stuff to go wrong in the various process that create, replicate, read and maintain DNA. Also, the Eldar cannot be that much more advanced than a human since well, most of our genome is actually pretty much the same as all other life forms. It is only 1% or less of it (I can't remember the number) that is actually uniquely human. The Eldar's portion of unique DNA must then be huge, meaning that they would not even resemble what constitutes a standard organism. Unless this third helix has some other purpose in which case, the Eldar's DNA is no longer as far as the base code goes any more complex.