Hey, a study has shown that human intelligence has been degrading since about AD 0 (zero)... for 2000 years. Maybe we need to rush. Certainly all the toxins of known and unknown chemical composition we're dumping in the environment ain't helping, but maybe evolution keeps pace and makes us immune... after all, the abundance of food since about WWII has helped us grow in height on average by a number of inches and that is doubtless accelerated evolution. Next step is that the nutritional value is dropping so we have to grow us a bigger gut... make up and get the size of a settee cow... we'll have to ingest more processed food such as mega burgers.

P.S. Year AD 0 is considered proven to be off by ~19 years BTW. Don't think a modern world could deal with fast forwarding to the year 2032, which would make next year a most interesting number, but not in the human genome sense. ;D

Year zero would probably be 1 BC, on the Julian year counting system (but I'm not going to split hairs over this... since the predominantly western and IT ** used calendar as noted if off anyhow ;)

BTW, I think the Chinese way of counting the birth is started 9 months earlier at that

So much for humanities years, which are maybe at the hour 11:57 or so. Time could be running out, and looking at the major media fed flu-panic developing in the USA [seemingly 5 weeks early in it's evolvement], it could be 11:58 ;P

** Think I saw a far east IT calendar indicating they were in a year more like 3500.

edit: evolvement is in quick check proper "in the act of evolving"

Hello Speedy51,
Here is the list of HPF2 Status Updates, which mention the recent genomes folded: http://bonneaulab.bio.nyu.edu/wcg/posts.html

Lawrence