Nov 24, 2021
Natural selection has been acting on hundreds of human genes in the last 3,000 years
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Natural selection, the evolutionary process that guides which traits become more common in a population, has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research suggests.
And it seems to be acting in surprising ways on complex traits encoded by multiple genes, such as those tied to intelligence, mental illness and even cancer.