Sunday, November 9, 2008

Novels of Evolution, addendum

Actually, if it were a novelized version of single celled organism evolution, covering endosymbiotic events and formation of aggregate cells, I would snap that shit up! The tertiary endosymbiotic event would be awesome fiction fodder, FYI. Otherwise, I will be reading my Regency romances over here, thank you.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Rosenberg2007.png
This is a graph for you. You can see that African populations have nearly 100% of the genetic diversity present in humanity. This is pretty solid evidence that humanity radiated from Africa. Thus, things that aren't present in African populations are thought to be recent adaptations.

Like lactase.
And excessive norepinephrine production- (This one is really cool. Mitochondria are ordered to cylce through stored energy, producing waste heat. This is why people can live at latitudes greater than 35°. This is also why Norwegians are insane.)
And PALE SKIN.
AND RED FREAKING HAIR.

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