The Y chromosome's rapid rate of evolutionary change does not mean that men are evolving faster than women.
"The problem is evolving faster than they can provide solutions," one person who is familiar with the country (and asked not to be identified) told me this week.
Data processing practices are evolving faster than the law can adapt to them, according to a senior British lawyer at an international law firm specialising in data protection.
Computer security experts warn that botnet programs are evolving faster than security firms can respond and have now come to represent a fundamental threat to the viability of the commercial Internet.
But in such a mobile-savvy country, the effect of such clumsy repression was short-lived.In short, the use of mobiles in protest and politics and even banking (see article) is evolving faster than governments' efforts to control it.
If No Doubt About It is any indication, then these artists have to first catch up with what's going on musically in hip-hop – a genre that is now evolving faster than ever before, with young producers rewriting the rules constantly.
This does not mean that men are evolving faster than women, given that the two belong to the same species, but it could be that the Y's rate of change drives or influences the evolution of the rest of the human genome in ways that now need to be assessed.
The result, she says, is that the underground industry is evolving faster than ever before.
From the data, the authors calculate that these genes have been evolving faster than 97% of the fruit fly genome.
It should also be noted that the language of science is evolving faster than that of natural language, especially in chemistry and molecular biology.
Storage is evolving faster than processing doubling every 12 months versus silicon's every 18 months and bandwidth is zooming fastest of all.
