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A larger distance between these sequences compared with those of other proteins might indicate that the protein has been evolving faster, and novel functions may have been developed among the more advanced species.
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Rai (Arabic for opinion) has been evolving fast in Algeria and among North African expatriates in France as it latches onto every gadget and dance-music effect within earshot.
RunKeeper has been evolving fast over the last year, most recently with version 4.0 for iPhone, following other developers in stripping back the interface to fit in with iOS 7. It's also playing a more active role, from (optional) push notifications reminding users to workout to a new series of training programmes geared to specific goals, such as training for a 5k run or losing weight.
From the data, the authors calculate that these genes have been evolving faster than 97% of the fruit fly genome.
In each of the chimp, human, and gorilla, more than 500 genes have been evolving faster than expected, suggesting that they have changed in a way that confers some advantage.
"The movement has been evolving so fast in the last couple years," said Scrivens.
Not paying the refs what they're worth is part of a trend: While football as a sport has been evolving for decades to become faster, more athletic, and incorporate more technology (radios in quarterbacks' helmets, coordinators' booths high above the field, cameras capturing every microsecond of every game for further study), the way the game is officiated has remained the same.
In recent decades, grinding has been evolved both for producing very high quality parts and for fast economic production.
Comparison of branch lengths indicates that all dpSmads have been evolving much faster than their counterparts in the Sma/Mab pathway – a finding suggestive of positive selection acting upon dpSmads.
"One of the things we found was that the genes that tend to be most similar [among friends] are also the genes that have been evolving the fastest," said Fowler.
For example, some disease gene classes appear to be of uncommonly recent (i.e., vertebrate-specific) origin and, as a whole, have been evolving at a faster rate within mammals than the majority of disease classes having more ancient origins.
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