Teenage Mutant Homo Sapiens

A collection of mutations-‘variations’ in GeneSpeak-in the locii of a couple of genes may be responsible for much of Mankind’s culture, science and environmental dama…err…dominance.

So says Bruce Lahn, a University of Chicago geneticist whose studies appear in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

But wait-there’s more!

Apparently, we don’t all have the same level of mutated-ness.

because Lahn's testing did find geographic differences in populations harboring the gene variants today. They were less common in sub-Saharan African populations, for example.

So!That means I’m culturally brainier than...oh wait.

I was born in SubSaharan Africa.