Blogging changes: simplicity desired

I will stop updating this blog and continue writing on life long learning at Steve's 2 Cents. The full reasoning and explanation behind this change can be found here. I thank you for your readership and conversations. I hope you'll continue the conversation at Steve's 2 Cents. Subscribe to Steve's 2 Cents here for RSS or here Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Life long learning doesn't end. It just evolves and adapts to the world!

evolutionary lag

From This is Your Brain on Music, The Science of Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin I find this quote worthy: To restate the summary principle of evolutionary biology, "Genetic mutations that enhance one's likelihood to live long enough to reproduce become adaptations." The best estimates are that it takes a minimum of fifty thousand years for an adaptation to show up in the human genome. This is called evolutionary lag -- the time lag between when an adapatation first appears in a small proportion of individuals and when it becomes widely distributed in the population. Gee, I figured it was going to take some time but I did not think it would be THAT long. I guess we better figure out a better way to handle our Blackberry devices. The solution to Blackberry thumb is not around the corner. What solutions would you like to see? A cure for the common cold? A cure for aids? A cure for cancer? ???