Katherine Pollard: The Fastest Evolving Regions of the Human Genome
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Published 2016-01-30
Join Gladstone Institutes' senior researcher Katherine Pollard in exploring the new techniques being used to discover the functions of the fastest evolving regions of the human genome and how individual DNA mutations altered these functions to make us human.
This Leakey Foundation Annual Speaker Series on Human Origins lecture took place at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on November 11, 2015.
All Comments (21)
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The speaker's explanation of differences among mammals at vid 16:00 is very clearly explained and helpful
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If this is not fascinating, nothing is!! Wonderful presentation by an excellent researcher!!
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Fantastic presentation. very clear, enjoyed watching.
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Good presentation. Wish my professors were this good
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Great presentation. Thank you for posting
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Wonderful lecture, very helpful for my research!
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Most excellent presentation - thank you so much ! 👍👍
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Excellent. Very informative and stated at a level one could follow. I enjoyed how she hit the high points. Well done.
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Erie to see that tissue beating like a heart. That must have been amazing the first time it was observed.
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Wow, one of my favorite videos I have ever seen. THIS. The important stuff: People don’t understand just exactly how important these things are. Also, I am completely in love with this speaker. 🥰🤷♀️ So freaking clear, I want to be near her so bad I feel it in my heart 😳 Did NOT expect that watching this until I heard her beautiful mind working. More please! 😂👍🏻
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How could someone dislike this presentation?
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I think she definitely went off-track when she speculated that humans may have developed speech as late as 5,000 years ago. That would have been well within the historical record. Civilization and government were arrived at by 6,000 years ago and, certainly, the beginnings of architecture and engineering, as well. So, speech would have been well-developed by then, of course. Given that art had its origins about 30,000 years ago, it is most likely that speech dates from at least 30,000 to 50,000 years ago.
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straight to the heart of it
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Excellent talk - thank you!
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Remarkable research and a fascinating lecture. Reading some of the comments begs the question "how much archaic human is still expressed in the homo sapien sapien genome".
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So well done.
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Great lecture. Thank you.
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Question: so what are the fastest evolving parts of the human genome?
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43:50 15 million mutations divided by 6 million years is not about 3 million mutations/year..it's 2.5/year, or about 3/year.
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Brilliant thank you
