Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever 584
John Hawks writes "A new genomics study in PNAS shows that humans have been evolving new adaptive genes during the past 10,000 years much faster than ever before. The study says that evolution has sped up because of population growth, making people adapt faster to new diseases, new diets, and social changes like cities. Oh, and I'm the lead author. I've been reading Slashdot for a long time, and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."
adaptation? (Score:5, Funny)
us trolls will rise up against you (Score:0, Funny)
Not only evolution (Score:5, Funny)
Millenia of "progress" (Score:4, Funny)
bad timing (Score:2, Funny)
Trolls on Slashdot?!? (Score:3, Funny)
Evolution... (Score:3, Funny)
short version (Score:2, Funny)
Trolls way ahead in evolution (Score:2, Funny)
You concept of evolution is slow compared to our daily respec.
LIARS!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:adaptation? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not anymore (Score:1, Funny)
I bet to differ - I can't get laid to save my life.
Re: adaptation? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:adaptation? (Score:3, Funny)
(feeds 30)
Place ingredients into bucket, use an electric hand whisk to turn into an emulsion, bring to the boil, and then vomit in it. Delicious.
Re:PLAGARISM in its worst form (Score:5, Funny)
(Unless you're a raving cultist yourself. Er... I have somewhere else to be, quickly.)
Re:adaptation? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not anymore (Score:3, Funny)
I think at least a couple of slashdotters get laid, proving there is still a lot of female desperation out there. Unless of course evolution is favouring pale bodies radiated only by computer screens.
Re:Backwards? (Score:4, Funny)
Australia is on the east. Yay!
Re:adaptation? (Score:5, Funny)
Just sayin'.
Re:Applying it to trolls (Score:5, Funny)
"I think it does indeed apply to trolls and prist fosters: evolution does not necessarily mean progressit can simply indicate a species adapting to fill a niche."
[X] Hey, I resemble that remark, you ignorant clod!
[X] Its like open source, you "have a niche you want to scratch".
[X] This explains the global obesity epidemic. As supermarket aisles get wider, people evolve to fill that niche.
Re: adaptation? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:adaptation? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I have to start going to church again.