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Article: Changing the face of the gene pool.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- December 18, 2007
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Dec 18, 2007 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientific studies are showing that humans are continuing to evolve. It had been accepted that human evolution had stopped, but recent research has revealed that evolution is continuing at a rapid pace. Henry Harpending, of the University of Utah, found that nearly 2,000 genes, or seven per cent of the genome, had been subjected to recent natural selection. However, scientists are divided on the ...