[Dichroic]

Umm didnt see this posted elsewhere.

Thought this is amusingly apropos since King Kong opens today.

And children try to play nice !

[HarleyLady27]

I thought King Kong and Teddy Kennedy looked familiar....

[Lancer_N3502A]

I knew there was something missing from DemocRATs.

[Mikey_1962]

Endorphin/Opiate ping!

[RadioAstronomer]

Interesting.

[steve8714]

"..distinct variant.." this means different. Shows nothing. Since all terrestrial life is carbon based, similar chemical compounds would be found throughout. The article's author(not the poster)may overreach attempting to draw a grand conclusion. Interesting, not fascinating.

[pangaea6]

"might well have depended in part on hyperactivation of the gene"

MIGHT WELL are the key words and of course we need to have some hyperactivity involved as well. Another theory paraded as fact.

[Wiseghy]

Ironically, Anthropologists regard spiritual awareness, such as burial after-life rituals, as key traits in distinguishing human sites from other lower species.

Could God have endowed us with an awareness of the spirit realm? Could pure rationalism actually be seen as a step back from this natural ability? Nahhhhh!!!!! (sarc.

[furball4paws]

There was a thread on this about a week ago. Didn't get much response. And it was the actual scientific paper.

[Elpasser]

"might well have depended in part..."

Anytime someone says "might," it is equally true that it might NOT.

Since when did speculation start being passed off for science?

[untrained skeptic]

"Researchers have discovered the first brain regulatory gene that shows clear evidence of evolution from lower primates to humans"

We simply don't know enough to make this claim.

The evidence can be said to be consistent with the theory that humans evolved from lower primates.

It could be said to show that there are similarities between humans and such primates, but be an example of why we are different.

We can't prove or disprove evolution any more than we can prove or disprove that man made global warming is significantly effecting the global climate.

[Junior]

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CrevoSci threads for the past week:

1. 2005-12-14 Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't
2. 2005-12-14 Education panel stalls curriculum vote for creationism appeal [S. Carolina, another Kansas?]
3. 2005-12-14 Key Brain Regulatory Gene Shows Evolution In Humans
4. 2005-12-13 Orthodox Jews in S. Florida join debate on evolution vs. intelligent design
5. 2005-12-13 Study Sheds Light On Early Migration (Americas)
6. 2005-12-13 The Problem with God: Interview with Richard Dawkins
7. 2005-12-12 C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) (Did The Author Of 'Narnia' Believe In Theistic Evolution, Etc?
8. 2005-12-12 Future of Conservatism: Darwin or Design? [Human Events goes with ID]
9. 2005-12-12 National Poll Is Being Done About Requiring Kids To Study INtelligent Design In Public Schools
10. 2005-12-12 Smart Bats Have Smaller Testicles
11. 2005-12-11 Obama says Republicans practice 'Social Darwinism'
12. 2005-12-10 Professor says was forced out over comment (Mirecki of Kansas)
13. 2005-12-09 Dog's Genome Could Provide Clues to Disorders in Humans
14. 2005-12-09 Giant Asian Ape and Humans Coexisted, Might Have Interacted
15. 2005-12-09 Movement Of Earth's North Magnetic Pole Accelerating Rapidly [No Doubt Bush's Fault!]
16. 2005-12-09 Theory of intelligent design making its way into Broward textbooks (Florida)
17. 2005-12-09 Whales, ostrich evolved in India
18. 2005-12-08 Ancient drought 'changed history'
19. 2005-12-08 Anti-creationism prof (KansasU) quits department chair
20. 2005-12-08 Dog genome sequence and analysis published in 'Nature'
21. 2005-12-08 Funny Cartoon!
22. 2005-12-08 God, Science [evolution], and the Kooky Kansans Who Love them Both
23. 2005-12-08 Huge New Virus Defies Classification
24. 2005-12-08 Man's best friend shares most genes with humans
25. 2005-12-08 Prof. Critical of Creationism Resigns Post
26. 2005-12-08 Similar stem cells in insect and human gut (Fruit flies are 'tiny distant cousins'?)
27. 2005-12-08 Students Denounce Reported Assault on Prof. Who Mocked Christian Fundamentalists
28. 2005-12-08 WHAT HAPPENED TO PAUL MIRECKI? (Phony Hate Crime Alert)

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CrevoSci Thread Count, 2005 YTD:  1256

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On This Date in CrevoSci History

1. 2004-12-14 ACLU Files Suit in Pa. Over Evolution
2. 2004-12-14 Species come and go – and so do we
3. 2002-12-14 Scientists exposed as sloppy reporters
4. 2001-12-14 Mars Odyssey Detects Signs of Water
5. 1999-12-14 Creation Ex Nihilo 22(1)
6. 1999-12-14 Macro-Evolution versus Moses(Several Parts)

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Longest CrevoSci Thread Ever

• 2002-12-11 Evolution Disclaimer Supported (6,915 replies)

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Lost CrevoSci Battlefields (Pulled or Locked Threads)

1. 2005-11-15 'Perception' gene tracked humanity's evolution, scientists say
2. 2004-04-27 Stop Teaching Our Kids this Evolution Claptrap!
3. 2003-10-29 The Mystery of the Missing Links (Intelligent Design vs. Evolution)
4. 2003-10-27 Physics Nobelist Takes Stand on Evolution
5. 2003-10-23 Gene Found for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
6. 2003-10-21 Artificial Proteins Assembled from Scratch
7. 2003-09-23 Solar System Formation Questions
8. 2003-09-17 Agreement of the Willing - Free Republic Science Threads
9. 2003-07-18 Unlikely Group May Revive Darwin Debate [Evolution v. Creationism]
10. 2003-07-02 Unlocking the Mystery of 'Unlocking the Mystery of Life'
11. 2003-06-26 Darwin Faces a New Rival
12. 2003-06-06 Amazing Creatures
13. 2002-09-13 Oldest Known Penis Is 100 Million Years Old
14. 2002-04-10 (Creationists) CRSC Correction
15. 2001-11-10 Alabama to continue biology textbook warning sticker
16. 2001-11-06 Warming makes mosquito evolve, University of Oregon scientists find
17. 2001-08-28 The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [6th Revision]
18. 2001-08-26 A Scientific Account of the Origin of Life on Earth [Thread I]
19. 2001-01-13 A Christian Understanding of Intelligent Design
20. 2000-11-15 Evolutionism Receives Another Hard Blow
21. 2000-10-10 Another Lost Generation?
22. 2000-08-30 Evil-Ution
23. 1999-11-14 Creationism's Success Past 5 Years: (Gallup: 1 in 10 hold secular evolutionist perspective)

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[F16Fighter]

[Researchers] said the evolution of humans might well have depended in part on hyperactivation of the gene, called prodynorphin (PDYN)....

"Might well...might well...."

More delusions of grandeur from the evo-philes that some way they may play "God" with enough crayons and coloring books.

[Old Professer]

If somebody hyperactivates that guy's prodynorphin, we're all in big trouble.

[Theophilus]

Key Brain Regulatory Gene Shows Evolution In Humans

Evolution...
...It's all in your head.