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"The region of the Y that is evolving the fastest is the part that plays a role in sperm production," say Jennifer Hughes, first author on the Nature  paper and a postdoctoral researcher in Whitehead Institute Director David Page's lab. "The rest of the Y is evolving more like the rest of the genome, only a little bit faster."

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Basically, the U of Chicago Law School listed Obama as a senior lecturer -- the title for a parttimer (lecturer) after a period of time (senior) -- until the question came up.  Then the U of C Law School said Obama had faculty status as a professor (the four faculty ranks are instructor for those still finishing Ph.D.'s, then assistant professor for those still working toward tenure, then associate professor and full professor for tenured faculty).  These are almost always for fulltime faculty, making a commitment to academe as a career, not as a sideline -- valuable to professional schools are the parttime lecturers from the fields.

So it's highly unusual, shall we say, for a parttimer to hold faculty status with the title of (whichever rank of) professor -- and for such a fast promotion, as promotions are the work of faculty committees, then to deans, then to provosts, then to presidents or chancellors, then to boards of trustees or regents, and that all takes at least a year.

However, of course, students tend to call every teacher "professor" -- at least, students with some manners, compared to those who use "hey you."  And anti-intellectuals dominate media, and media despise titles, and media loved Obama, and lots of other Americans also are so suspicious of academe that they refused to respect or even try to understand faculty ranks and titles.  (Imagine if we started using the title of, say, paramedics for physicians -- or paralegals for all lawyers.)

Also, law schools (and medical schools), with all their massive endowments, are well known to be allowed to be laws unto themselves in academe.  And the U of Chicago is that in other ways.  So . . . bottom line is that once the U of Chicago stepped in to say, in very odd working, that it considered Obama to be the equivalent of a professor, that quashed the question of fraudulent credentials.