Evolution and You

You know, it's really strange - if you talk about DNA or genetics in general - everyone agrees that there is change, survival of the fittest (adaption) and mutation - Yet, if you call it evolution, people freak out and burn you at the stake... But you can't seperate the two - You can't hide behind 'it's only a theory' anymore - genetics PROVED Darwins basic theory a long time ago and those people just missed it. Sadly, idiots breed like rabbits and intelligent people have a reasonable litter - which only proves that smart people need more sex!!

There are only two changes in the 118 letters of DNA code that make up HAR1 between the genomes of chimps and chickens. But chimps and humans are 18 letter-changes apart. And those mutations occurred in just five million years, as we evolved from our shared ancestor.

Subsequent experiments looking at the brains of human and primate embryos revealed that HAR1 is part of two overlapping genes. One of these genes, called HAR1F is active in nerve cells that appear early in embryonic development and play a critical role in the formation of the layered structure of the human cerebral cortex.