Culture speeds up human evolution

Posted by Magdalene on December 13th, 2007 Comments (0)

“We found very many human genes undergoing selection,” says anthropologist Gregory Cochran of the University of Utah.”Most are very recent, so much so that the rate of human evolution over the past few thousand years is far greater than it has been over the past few million years.”

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