Lander and his colleagues say evolution's lab book points to only 30, 000 genes--if a gene is defined as a stretch of DNA that codes for one of the proteins from which the body is built.

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Blank points out that this evolution closely parallels the formation of the movie industry in the early 20th century.

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However, he added that "everything points to a favourable evolution of the situation in Diabaly in the coming hours".

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That was because his hypothesis was that if linguistic evolution is jerky, the jerks will happen at the points where languages split the equivalent of species splits in biological evolution.

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But Cornell biologist Allen MacNeill points out that the poll also shows the percentage of Americans who have accepted evolution has gone up more than steadily since the early 1980s, once you take Gallup into consideration.

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