maybe you should have read to the end of the article on Recode, a number of studies are mentioned.

Hey Mesk, thanks for your replies. 
 
We’ve been doing a bit of work on Actinins in zebrafish. Specific to this discussion, we’ve found that there are two Actn3s that appear to both be expressed. It doesn’t appear that only one of those copies has been selected for function, as is the case with many of the gene copies created during the teleost genome duplication however many millions of years ago, where one copy eventually accumulates enough mutations and becomes a psuedogene and transcriptionally silent. 
 
We’re going to be publishing (relatively) soon, as soon as some more in situs get completed, and it really will not be much more than a survey of Actinins in the zebrafish with a bit of functional analysis for Actn1 (I just injected some dom neg RNA this morning), but it is interesting to consider (and this is something we’ll probably include in the handwaving, uh, I mean discussion section, of our paper a comparison between fish and mammalian muscle and metabolic requirements for Actn3. 
 
It’s interesting that there appears to have been at least some constraint against losing the extra Actn3 in zebrafish (possibly all teleosts), while human populations seem to be under strong selective pressure to develop more slow-twitch, slow-metabolism musculature. 
 
The expression pattern between Actn2 and Actn3s during early zebrafish development is interesting in that their expression domains are (as near as we can tell so far) mutually exclusive, which was a bit unexpected.

I’m unsure of where this post is going, Razib. Are you pointing out that the rich, sophisticated, university-educated men were the starters of the Reformation? 
 
Very well, but that’s only to be expected, right? Those with wealth and affluence, and who were literate and able to communicate well… who else would even have the means? And then as the Reformation trickled down to the masses who were illiterate farm workers who toiled in pig excrement and slept in maggot-infested hay beds, it’s also to be expected that the movement as a whole was transformed into axiomatic lexica. Ergo if the Catholic Church utilizes icons to its advantage, the Reformists will teach their followers to destroy the icons. 
 
This is kinda funny to admit, but I’m really miffed that I read your post and can’t find any kind of “point” that you were trying to make… since personally, thinking about history (or anything else, for that matter) is really only fun if you throw in some spicy opinions or insight.