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Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds
TL;DRHumans are still evolving genetically despite rapid cultural progress over millennia.
Why it matters: Challenges assumptions about human evolution's halt and reshapes understanding of adaptation timelines.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our…
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