Message #594

[Jan]

mmmmm ... chocolate - er yeah sorry - where were we?

I guess we have had to adapt you know depending on what was available (we survived an Ice age didn't we?).

Interesting article here JJ

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073211.htm

For years researchers have puzzled over whether adaptation plays a major role in human evolution or whether most changes are due to neutral, random selection of genes and traits. Geneticists at Stanford now have laid this question to rest. Their results, scheduled to be published Jan. 16 online in Public Library of Science Genetics, show adaptation-the process by which organisms change to better fit their environment-is indeed a large part of human genomic evolution.

Still on the science thing - did anyone else catch the Horizon program 'Are we still evolving'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzpbDVjO_nw&feature=related