Sunday, January 24, 2010

The results are in: Men are evolving faster than women!

By Dave Stancliff/For the Times-Standard

Posted: 01/24/2010 01:24:13 AM PST

I have good news and bad news for men everywhere. The good news is, a recent study has determined that men are evolving faster than women!

It's time to get rid of all of those knuckle-dragging jokes about men being more primitive than women. Science says it isn't so. It's true, ladies. According to the study's co-author, Dr. David Page, director of the prestigious Whitehead Institute in Cambridge and a professor of biology at MIT, “The Y chromosome appears to be the most rapidly evolving of the human chromosomes.”

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