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We’re missing parts of DNA that code for spiky penises and that inhibit brain development. It took sometime, 6 million years or so, but definitely worth the wait.
“In a paper published Thursday in Nature, the Stanford University researchers show the differences between humans and our nearest relative, the chimpanzee, are the result of DNA sequences lost since our divergence from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago.
Women of the world will be particularly grateful that among the ditched DNA is the penile spine enhancer, which gives chimpanzees spiky-spined penises.”
Evolution in action. Thank goodness we did take the love-dart route either.
“Kingsley [an author of the paper] says they are continuing to work through the lost sequences to identify links with other anatomical differences such as sweat glands, walking upright, s-shaped spines and skin changes.
He says the two sequences in DNA highlighted in the paper were lost sometime between when humans and chimps split from each other 6 million years ago and before humans and Neanderthals diverged about 600,000 years ago
“Both of the losses are also lost in the Neanderthal,” says Kingsley.
“The Neanderthal brain was already big and there is a lot of interest in whether Neanderthal and humans interbred – the loss of the penile spine was the anatomical change that would allow interbreeding.”
Kingsley says although the modern genome is evolving, our understanding of evolution will also change the way the genome continues to evolve.”
If there is one thing that makes my eyes widen and drool it is the unadulterated lightsaber porn of the Force Unleashed II trailer. Witness…
Awesomeness squared~!~ It is horrible I know, but it is like my cortex turns off and the lizard brain takes over and goes…ohhhhh…coooooool.
The other doom of my time is the upcoming MMORPG being put out by Bioware, the Old Republic. Even the music is fantastic. :)
I will just keep telling myself I am too old for these damn time-sinks and have much more important real life things to do.
It has been awhile since I posted a Subnormality comic here, and after getting a unwelcome visit by “concerned people” about my soul, this strip seems appropriate.
The Roman Catholic Church is a corrupt institution that continues to support the rape and molestation of children on top of preaching bat-shite crazy baffle-gab to the deluded. Such malignant evil has no place in the 21st century.
I wonder if they have any religious prognosticators in Japan telling the people that abortionists, feminists, homosexuals and secular society was the reason for their natural disaster?
Apparently 9/11 was the result of god’s anger if you listen to certain prominent members of the US religious community.
Yes, with sure faced certainty these two ratbags are commenting solemnly on the will of god and what the ‘rampant secularization’ has caused in the USA. I’m betting such religious mendacity would not see the light of day in Japan, as belief in the supernatural is squarely in the private realm in the island nation. The earthquakes and tsunami in Japan are being dealt with in a rational cogent manner, no supernatural boogy-man involved or necessary.
Seems like we have a Friday mini-theme going as last week was the second movement, so why stop now? :)
Adagio molto e cantabile – Andante Moderato – Tempo Primo – Andante Moderato – Adagio – Lo Stesso Tempo. Duration approx. 16 mins.
The lyrical slow movement, in B flat major, is in a loose variation form, with each pair of variations progressively elaborating the rhythm and melody. The first variation, like the theme, is in 4/4 time, the second in 12/8. The variations are separated by passages in 3/4, the first in D major, the second in G major. The final variation is twice interrupted by episodes in which loud fanfares for the full orchestra are answered by double-stopped octaves played by the first violins alone. A prominent horn solo is assigned to the fourth player. Trombones are tacet for the movement.
Bill is hyperbolic during his segments, but using the fact and the funny he points to many flaws in how a nation can perceive itself and some of the myths people can embrace.
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