The LDHA gene and racing pigeon performance
While genetic engineering is fully developing and promising, one should be patient instead of immediately seeing a business model.
It won't be another 500 years before man will probably no longer have a reason to exist because of no longer needed for human reproduction. Women have long been able to give birth to full-fledged offspring from an artificially fertilised egg. Fertilisation of the egg cell can also be done with a woman's genetic material (skin cell), making the man redundant.
The motivating effect of Tempo 60!
After years of evaluation and communication with enthusiasts, we can conclude that Tempo 60 visibly stimulates motivation and the desire to fly. The exact influence on return performance (how fast) has not yet been measured.
The road home
In animal groups where specific individuals disproportionately influence collective decisions, the whole group’s performance may suffer if these individuals have incorrect information. Whether leaders in such situations can be replaced in their roles by better-informed group mates is an essential question in understanding the adaptive consequences of collective decision-making.
With pigeons, they used a time-shifting procedure (from an artificially set day-night clock) to manipulate the predictability of directional error in navigational information from established leaders within the swarm hierarchy of carrier pigeons (Columba livia).