|
|
|
|
pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
 Posted - 05/09/2007 : 01:17:23
|
Link
quote:
The human and chimpanzee genomes vary by just 1.2 percent, yet there is a considerable difference in the mental and linguistic capabilities between the two species. A new study showed that a certain form of neuropsin, a protein that plays a role in learning and memory, is expressed only in the central nervous systems of humans and that it originated less than 5 million years ago. The study, which also demonstrated the molecular mechanism that creates this novel protein, will be published online in Human Mutation, the official journal of the Human Genome Variation Society.
|
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
|
|
|
Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 05/09/2007 : 01:37:51 [Permalink]
|
That is pretty damn cool.
|
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
|
 |
|
|
HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 01:39:17 [Permalink]
|
Neat! Were getting so much information of human origins recently. (I bet Filthy's beloved civilized mole rats don't have our form of neuropsin at all!)
|
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
|
|
|
filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 05/09/2007 : 02:26:51 [Permalink]
|
quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Neat! Were getting so much information of human origins recently. (I bet Filthy's beloved civilized mole rats don't have our form of neuropsin at all!)
Having already achieved Utopia, they don't need it. 
|
"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
|
|
|
|
JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 05:35:16 [Permalink]
|
Google ads are always good for a laugh. When I read the article, the second advert below the bolded summary paragraph was:
Why do we humans exist? - Is there a purpose to our lives? Can we know for sure? Find out!
Which was a link to the home page of a cult in my own back yard, no less, the United Church of God, Australia. |
John's just this guy, you know. |
|
|
|
Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 05:40:13 [Permalink]
|
| right so now all we need to do is inject this protein into a monkey brain and the next thing you know BAM its planet of the apes |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
|
|
|
Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 19:57:36 [Permalink]
|
| right so now all we need to do is inject this protein into a monkey brain and the next thing you know BAM its planet of the apes |
Its never that simple.
|
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
|
|
|
|
HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 20:19:29 [Permalink]
|
Originally posted by Dude
| right so now all we need to do is inject this protein into a monkey brain and the next thing you know BAM its planet of the apes |
Its never that simple.
|
That's right, you have to carefully educate them afterwards.
|
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
|
|
|
beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
|
|
Bibleland
Skeptic Friend
USA
51 Posts |
|
|
Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2007 : 08:23:16 [Permalink]
|
From bibleland's jack chick link:
| This booklet is the distilled essence of the much more complete book, How Life Began. The first teacher of a Christian high school to read How Life Began came back and bought 40 more copies, 30 of them for his graduating seniors! A few copies of How Life Began will give the teacher and the most interested students a great deal of in depth scientific evidence and background. |
1st, don't be a troll Bibleland. If you have something to say, SAY it.
2nd, what does this have to do with the discovery of a gene that may have played a role in the evolution of human intelligence?
3rd, Jack Chick goes together with "scientific evidence" like radishes go on a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich (there are a small number of people stupid enough to put those things together).
4th, Aren't you missing out on the creationist clusterfuck orgy of the century right now? Shouldn't you be up at Ham's creation museum or something?
|
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
The Human Gene?
