Scientists have identified a gene that appears to have played a key role in the development of the human brain.

[Analog]

They ranged from the chimpanzee, which is man's closest living relative, to the owl monkey, a relatively primitive creature analogous to an early stage of human evolution.

They found evidence that the make-up of the gene changed significantly between the species - and the higher up the evolutionary scale they went, the more changes they found.

The biggest difference was found between the human and chimpanzee forms of the gene - confirming that the recent phase of human evolution has been the most speedy and profound.


By contrast, when researchers looked at the make-up of the gene in more primitive animals such as cows, sheep, cats and dogs they found little evidence of significant changes between species.

This implies that the speed of change was much slower further down the evolutionary ladder.


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[Eli]

So it seems that evolution has been kinda like the snowball effect for us.. the more we evolved, the faster we evolved?

Pretty cool.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

After reading Xiety's posts in the thread asking if 9/11 was staged by our own government, I think we can safely say this gene does not appear anywhere in his genetic make-up.

Interesting article. Thanks for the link.

 

[XZeroII]

I wonder if anyone realizes that working with genes and DNA is like hex editing an AVI file and figuring out exactly what the video is. They do LOTS of guesswork.

 

[thomsbrain]

Scientests confirmed that yellowfiero lacks this gene.

 

[Kadarin]

That article has to be a lie, for it makes the baby Jesus cry...