Wednesday, 13 January 2010 02:09 pm
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deckardcanineThe Associated Press reports here, among other sites:
Men more evolved? Y chromosome study suggests yes!
WASHINGTON -- Women may think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome — the thing that makes a man male — is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code.
The article goes on to clarify that faster-evolving Y chromosomes do not necessitate more evolved men. (This warning comes by way of a woman, funnily enough.)
Frankly, I call this a typical example of lay journalists not having done their science homework. The organisms that evolve fastest, from a physical perspective at least, are the primitive ones. That's why diseases keep needing new treatments and bugs keep needing new pesticides.
Men more evolved? Y chromosome study suggests yes!
WASHINGTON -- Women may think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome — the thing that makes a man male — is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code.
The article goes on to clarify that faster-evolving Y chromosomes do not necessitate more evolved men. (This warning comes by way of a woman, funnily enough.)
Frankly, I call this a typical example of lay journalists not having done their science homework. The organisms that evolve fastest, from a physical perspective at least, are the primitive ones. That's why diseases keep needing new treatments and bugs keep needing new pesticides.