[Rudder]

This report supports a growing consensus among evolutionary anthropologists that hominid divergence from the other great apes was fueled not by the origin of new genes, but by the quickening (or slowing) of the expression of existing genes.

Interesting...this is similar to the proposed manner of evolution for various hormones.

[VadeRetro]

It's vindicating all those who have insisted that the "junk" isn't junk, of course. But we've known for some time that some of the non-coding regions were regulatory and that regulation was a big part of the game. (Of course, whole families of genes also regulate the expression of other genes.)