Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed

eldavojohn notes an article up at Science Daily on research demonstrating that smaller animals with warmer blood evolve faster than larger, colder animals. From the article: "Across species from fish to mammals, they found that rates of protein evolution showed the same body size and temperature dependence as metabolic rate. Specifically, their mathematical model predicts that a 10-degree increase in temperature across species leads to about a 300 percent increase in the evolutionary rate of proteins, while a tenfold decrease in body size leads to about a 200 percent increase in evolutionary rates."

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Re:Now it makes sense

[lonesome_coder]

My weight isn't very loose at all, thank you very much. /grammarpolice

Re:This explains everything!

[jollyreaper]

You know, the funny thing is that I don't personally actually KNOW any Republicans that don't consider evolution to be an obvious, plain-as-day fact. It's possible that you're confusing "Republicans" with "religious crazies." Much like many people confuse "Democrats" with, say, "Communists" or "Wiccans" or something else that suggests you're painting with the wrong-sized brush. I'm neither, by the way, and know plenty of people in each party, none of which fit any of those fringier-extremes. Not a single Republican candidate for President spoke out in confirming their belief in evolution. This was put to them in a debate. If you kowtow to backwards, superstitious idiots even if you don't share their beliefs, are you any better than them? No.