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Humans Evolving Faster Than Ever

Posted by timothy on Friday November 30, 2012 @08:06PM from the nerdrage-in-three-two-one dept.

Kwyj1b0 writes "In a massive study on genetic variation among humans, researchers found that most changes have occurred in the last 200 generations, too fast for natural selection to catch up. Recent papers show that rare genetic variations have a more drastic effect than previously believed. Another result shows that 'we carry a much larger load of deleterious variants' (as well as positive variants) than our ancestors 200 generations ago."

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Re:You don't supppose, do you... by Hognoxious · 2012-11-30 23:04 · Score: 5, Funny

200 generations, not 200 years. The difference is a factor of 20 or so.

It's left as an exercise for the reader to make a joke about Pakistan, Utah or Rotherham.

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Re:This this not evolution by devleopard · 2012-12-01 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Software engineering does not introduce random mutations into the Software
You obviously haven't worked with some of the developers I've worked with

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Re:first by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-12-01 05:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Evidence that evolution has escaped you.....
No, he's just one of those with a much larger load of deleterious variants.

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