When genes and environment disagree: Making sense of trends in recent human evolution
In humans, for the first time, we are now able to observe ongoing natural selection at the molecular level. Natural selection operates when particular genetic variants render the individuals who bear them more likely to reproduce. As a consequence, those genetic variants increase in frequency in the...
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Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2016
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