Contributed by: filbert Friday, September 09 2005 @ 11:52 AM CST
Bwah-hah-hah-hah!!!!![*1]
Two key brain-building genes, which underwent dramatic changes in the past that coincided with leaps in human intellectual development, are still undergoing rapid mutations, Bruce Lahn and his University of Chicago colleagues report in today’s issue of the journal Science.
The researchers found that not everyone has the genes, but that evolutionary pressures are causing them to increase at an unprecedented rate. Lahn’s group is also trying to determine just how smart the genes may have made humans.
Everybody now, sing: “In the year 2525, if man is still alive . . . ”