Wade was the subject of a hilarious post on Language Log: "The hunt for the Hat Gene" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1896 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.

Wade was the subject of a hilarious post on Language Log: "The hunt for the Hat Gene" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1896 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1896 Nicholas Wade is an inveterate gene-for-X enthusiast — he's got 68 stories in the NYT index with "gene" in the headline — and he's had two opportunities to celebrate this idea in the past few days: "Speech Gene Shows Its Bossy Nature", 11/12/2009, and "The Evolution of the God Gene", 11/14/2009. The first of these articles is merely a bit misleading, in the usual way. The second verges on the bizarre.