Greedy Trial Lawyer
Keep Your Eye On The Genome
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Mankind is still evolving, but not necessarily in the direction of perfection. Any serious presidential candidate or greedy trial lawyer should follow this research.
Recent Changes Discovered In The Human Genome
A Cornell study of genome sequences in African-Americans, European-Americans and Chinese suggests that natural selection has caused as much as 10 percent of the human genome to change in some populations in the last 15,000 to 100,000 years, when people began migrating from Africa.In the latest study, the researchers identified 101 regions of the human genome with strong evidence of very recent selection. These regions include genes that control proteins that help muscle cells attach to surrounding cells (mutations of this gene lead to muscular dystrophy), receptors that relate to hearing, genes involved in nervous system function and development, immune system genes and heat shock genes.
"It is important to emphasize that the research does not state that one group is more evolved or better adapted than another," said co-author Carlos Bustamante, a Cornell assistant professor of biological statistics and computational biology. "Rather as humans have populated the world, there has been strong selective pressure at the genetic level for fortuitous mutations that allow digestion of a new food source or tolerate infection by a pathogen that the population may not have faced in a previous environment."
My own study of the human race, American subtype, also shows environmental pressure causing genome change. Although my full report is not quite ready for publication I can already say with certainty Americans are evolving in the following ways:
1) Shorter attention spans for anything complicated or nuanced.
2) An emotional need for almost continuous cellphone conversations.
3) More primitive, mystical religious beliefs.
4) Enjoyment of less understandable song lyrics.
What does this mean for those of us who seek to communicate effectively with our fellow Americans? (This applies equally to trial lawyers and presidential candidates.)
It means the most effective vehicle to get a message across would be to do it in a one minute rap-like chant of easily digested but garbled sound bites beginning with the words, Before the Rapture, broadcast to the jury or to every potential voter by Sprint.
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