Sentences with phrase «genes in the human pool»

Not exact matches

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

However, if I was an ancient Israelite, and I saw things like the Red Sea parting, staff turned into snakes, and the Shekinah glory, and prophets predicting specific future events with 100 % accuracy, and other nations setting their face against Israel to destroy her and / or engaged in human sacrifice, and they weren't typical humans but were actually a group of hybrids like the Nephalim or the Rephaim that were polluting the gene pool to try to foil God's plan of ultimately bringing a Messiah to save all mankind one day, and God wanted them to repent and sent them warning after warning, and they refused, and God commanded me thus....

However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.

Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?

No doubt ideas of kin altruism (the mutual support extended between those who share in the family gene pool) and reciprocal altruism (favors done in the expectation of favors later to be received) shed some Darwinian light on aspects of human behavior.

The data suggest that around 3500 B.C. — roughly the same time that many linguists place the origin of PIE and that archaeologists date horse domestication — Yamnaya genes replaced about 75 percent of the existing human gene pool in Europe.

The researchers used «bait» proteins from over two dozen known autism genes, fishing in a pool of human DNA for other proteins that would interact with the baits.

«This is giving us a window on human evolution where we see that there were these periods of flux and ebbs and flows in our gene pool.»

A world in which ectogenesis — the artificial development and «birth» of human embryos outside the womb — is the norm, «and less than 30 per cent of children are... born of woman», a world of ectogenetic parents selected to improve the quality of the gene pool, advancing each generation in any desired respect «from the increased output of first - class music to... decreased convictions for theft».

The empire eventually fragmented, but the Mongols» vast geographic reach and their ideas — an international postal system, organized agriculture research and meritocracy - based civil service among other things — shaped national borders, languages, cultures and human gene pools in ways that resound today.

The groups that evolved into bonobos, chimps, and humans all retained slightly different subsets of this ancestral population's diverse gene pool — and those differences now offer clues today to the size and range of diversity in that ancestral group.

He says that if air pollution is adding harmful mutations to the human gene pool, «in the long run for society, the expenses are huge.»

Therefore, cloning should never be allowed to become so common that it reduces the overall diversity in the human gene pool.

«Recent increases in chronic diseases like childhood asthma and autism can not be due to major shifts in the human gene pool,» says physician and geneticist Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Instihuman gene pool,» says physician and geneticist Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research InstiHuman Genome Research Institute.

The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.

In Eric Lander's lab at the Broad Institute, she scanned the entire human genome to figure out which genes have changed within the last 10,000 years and which have spread rapidly in the human gene pool due to natural selectioIn Eric Lander's lab at the Broad Institute, she scanned the entire human genome to figure out which genes have changed within the last 10,000 years and which have spread rapidly in the human gene pool due to natural selectioin the human gene pool due to natural selection.

Making changes to the DNA in human embryos could accidentally introduce an error into the human gene pool, inadvertently creating a new disease that would be passed down for generations, critics say.

The big fear is this could open the door to scientists editing DNA in embryos for other reasons, and they could make some kind of mistake that would mess up the human gene pool.

He does have one particular obsession, and that is the so - called Darwin Awards, which are fictional annual awards (delivered in book and internet form) given to people who die through acts of sheer stupidity (a man straps a jet engine to his car, a woman puts an RV in cruise control thinking it will drive itself, etc.), thus taking the dumbest among us out of the human gene pool.

The Darwin Award is an annual tongue - in - cheek honor recognizing individuals who've contributed to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool — doing something stupid enough to kill themselves.

There is an abundance of issues that stem straight from the small gene pools that human beings have manipulated in dogs; 60 percent of golden retrievers will die of cancer before they turn eight.

Novelist Michael Crichton, in State of Fear, ends with an appendix comparing the theory of global warming to the theory of eugenics — the belief, prominently promoted by Nazis, that the gene pool of the human species was degenerating due to higher reproductive rates of «inferior» people.

Government officials come from the same gene pool as every other human and may believe that a person or a company has engaged in intentional wrongdoing.