Human Genes Still Evolving

MediumFormat writes "The New York Times is running an article that discusses the continuing evolution of human genes. From the article: 'The genes that show this evolutionary change include some responsible for the senses of taste and smell, digestion, bone structure, skin color and brain function.' Darwin Awards aside, what made people think that evolution stopped with the modern era?"

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Are Journalist's all Classic Majors?

[Quirk]

"The New York Times is running an article that discusses the continuing evolution of human genes."

Hilariously funny. I see journalists as advertising sales people, while I read them as infrequently as possible. Their fashion sense seems to be the most keen of their senses. 'Serious' jounalists dress nerdy and wear bow ties to dissociate themselves from their advertising space sales force kin, but in doing so speak loudly to how superficially minded they are.

Nature is a process people. Life as we know it is an open non equilibrium system.

Likewise science is a process defined by thresholds such as those opened and imposed by inventions like the microscope and the telescope. I'm preaching to the choir, but maybe there's a classics major in the house.