[PatrickHenry]

Thanks. I donno if this gets a ping or not, so I'm pinging my "bio experts" list for input.

[js1138]

bio expert (hahahahaha) checking in.

[Quark2005]

Thanks. I donno if this gets a ping or not, so I'm pinging my "bio experts" list for input.

Ping appreciated (as always) but I certainly don't qualify in this respect (maybe that's why you included the "quotes"...)

I'm always eager for any real science ping, though - the "real science" threads attract a less nutty crowd than the more politically-driven science threads and make for a welcome (if quieter) diversion.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Thanks. I donno if this gets a ping or not, so I'm pinging my "bio experts" list for input."

I'm hardly a *bio-expert* but thanks for the ping! My training was in history; I was working on my Master's concentrating on the history of biology (mostly evolution) when family circumstances forced me to leave school and run my father's business. I do plan on going back within a year or so (possibly in Microbiology), when I save up the money. Financial circumstances have changed for the better here, and I am free to pursue academics again if I wish. I'll be a little old going back (34 now), but I plan on living forever so it won't matter. :)

Very interesting article.

[furball4paws]

It has great importance for evolution. For example, most of the differences between chimps and humans are in non-coding regions, especially in promoters. Controlling development probably is as important a function as any other in differences between close species. Surely phosphorylation will play a role.

OTOH I don't know what there is to discuss. It's all very much speculative at this point in time. Some of it will prove good and some will fall by the wayside. It's too early.

Informed opinion or flatulence - take your pick.

[VadeRetro]

I'm pinging my "bio experts" list for input.

I gather I got this as a BCC / FYI or something. ;)