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Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever

Posted by kdawson on from the or-maybe-we're-just-getting-more-intelligently-designed dept.

John Hawks writes "A new genomics study in PNAS shows that humans have been evolving new adaptive genes during the past 10,000 years much faster than ever before. The study says that evolution has sped up because of population growth, making people adapt faster to new diseases, new diets, and social changes like cities. Oh, and I'm the lead author. I've been reading Slashdot for a long time, and let me just say that our study doesn't necessarily apply to trolls."

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  1. Re:Not anymore by sqldr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Look how people with higher chance of hemophilia are less likely to suffer from malaria.

    Surely you mean sickle cell anemia?

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