...interesting.

[kyrielle]

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?

Comments

[pheon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, yeah. It doesn't proclaim it, but it doesn't rule it out, either.

Interesting article. Intelligent design, here we come.

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

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.

[eevieivy.livejournal.com]

Secret of NIMH.

Hee. :)

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

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. :)