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Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 06:35 am
Courtesy of SJ Games Daily Iluminator, A Discover article about the gene whose mutation may have given us our larger brains, and thus made us capable of being human. If he's right, am I the only one who sees shades of the Uplift Saga - or pieces of it - lurking about?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 07:12 am (UTC)
Hmmm, yeah. It doesn't proclaim it, but it doesn't rule it out, either.

Interesting article. Intelligent design, here we come.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 01:20 pm (UTC)
Wow, either Discover has gone into massive decline of technical accuracy, or I'm reading a lot more precisely than I used to. Either way, I'm tempted to do a rather caustic detailed review of that article, just to get my shock at the number of simple errors out of my head.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 03:34 pm (UTC)
I spoke too broadly. Not errors per se, but rather atypical implicit (and nearly explicit) conclusions which do not, to the best of my knowledge, reflect the majority of modern research. Cool gene though. :)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2004 01:43 pm (UTC)
Secret of NIMH.

Hee. :)