Evolution getting faster by the millennium
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/...2007/12/11/1197135461835.html?s_cid=rss_world
NATURE'S race to create the perfect person has shifted into top gear, with humans evolving 100 times faster than at any time since the rise of man some 6 million years ago...
The pace of human evolution in the past 5000 years was "immense something nobody expected", John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist, said yesterday.
His team found evidence that 1800 genes, or 7 per cent of all those in the human body, had undergone natural selection in the past 5000 years. "We are more different genetically from people living 5000 years ago than they were from Neanderthals," said Professor Hawks. "In the last 40,000 years humans have changed as much as they did in the previous 2 million years....
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/...2007/12/11/1197135461835.html?s_cid=rss_world
NATURE'S race to create the perfect person has shifted into top gear, with humans evolving 100 times faster than at any time since the rise of man some 6 million years ago...
The pace of human evolution in the past 5000 years was "immense something nobody expected", John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropologist, said yesterday.
His team found evidence that 1800 genes, or 7 per cent of all those in the human body, had undergone natural selection in the past 5000 years. "We are more different genetically from people living 5000 years ago than they were from Neanderthals," said Professor Hawks. "In the last 40,000 years humans have changed as much as they did in the previous 2 million years....