Posted on 03/10/2011 1:50:12 PM PST by Cardhu
Genetic comparison with chimps suggests that losing chunks of DNA – including one associated with penis spines and facial whiskers – played a crucial role in making us human.
Scientists have identified a clutch of subtle genetic changes that have shaped our minds and bodies into the unique form that sets humans apart from chimpanzees and the rest of the animal kingdom.
The work by researchers in the US represents a landmark in a search that has occupied philosophers and scientists for millennia and one that goes to the heart of understanding what it means to be human.
The findings offer up the humbling conclusion that the secret of human success may owe more to what we lost along the path of evolution, rather than anything we gained.
When the human genome was first deciphered more than a decade ago, some scientists expected to find extra genes that explained why humans had an intellectual edge over their closest living relatives and other species. But since diverging from chimpanzees around seven million years ago, it turns out that our human ancestors lost several hundred snippets of DNA, which together led to traits that are uniquely human, the researchers claim.
In ditching these chunks of DNA, our ancient ancestors lost facial whiskers and short, tactile spines on their penises. The latter development is thought to have paved the way for more intimate sex and monogamous relationships. The loss of other DNA may have been crucial in allowing humans to grow larger brains.
Intriguingly, hardly any of the lost DNA was from genes, which make the proteins that are the building blocks of life. Instead, the missing DNA came from areas of the genome that regulate where and when certain genes are active.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Evolutionists will believe anything.
penis spines. sheesh. Can’t they ever calm down?
Every day it’s penis spines this & charlie sheen that.
Does this help explain why so many liberals are spineless little pricks?
Well at least likekly to never make it past the first "date." ;~))
Well, of course, everything we observe in the universe is moving from chaos to order, donchaknow.
Or perhaps, we’re just one of a “multiverse” in which a ton of TNT is thrown into a junkyard and in ONE of those universes, the Lexis dealership appears (with the RX 450 sitting at idle at the curbside).
This just proves how science can lose itself in the big picture of things at one time or another.
Wasn’t that caused by a spider bite?
Spiny Norman resents the implication that shedding spines makes you more evolved.
It seems the females are the promiscuous ones, whereas, the male has to slam, bang, thank you ma’am so as not hold up the queue and get assaulted.
Yeah, that’s just about the size of it. (this article)
We’re still shaving, how come? Then too, we’ve been told that 80% of body heat goes out the head. Why are there bald people then? Shouldn’t all that evolution stuff taken care of that? Facial hair and no head hair. Good Grief.
Yeah, ‘penile spines’ brings out the best in us.
Either that or:
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 1:26-27
I will rest on the Word of God, not the word of man.
Who has the penis spine ping list? Or did we lose that too?
And the CS Lewis biggie(s):
why do we know how we ought to act,
know that we don’t act that way,
do it anyway,
and make excuses for not acting as we ought?
Only applies to liberals....
Cats still have the spines. They are barbs, going the “wrong way” as it were, and only after the painful contact with these barbs will the female cat ovulate.
And not only these painful spines must be endured by the female cat, but the male will bite and hold her by the neck as well, often leaving “fang marks.”
Not only that, but she might be in heat for days, and many male cats might find her, so she has to go through this for Charlie-Sheen-like weekends!!
So I am personally glad we evolved...
That's enough of the redundant posts! Charlie Sheen=penis spine...
Now that we’ve answered that important question upon which the future of mankind was resting, maybe they can move on to what happened to the spines of libs and RINO’s.
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