Genetic change has been coming 100 times faster in the past 5000 years than at any point in previous history say Robert K. Moyzis of the University of California, Irvine, and Henry C. Harpending of the University of Utah. I imagine they then immediately shouted, NBA Jam-style, "He's heating up!" while fantasizing about the inevitability of women who sprout wings and men who shoot lasers out of their nostrils.
While the more prevalent notion has been that evolution has slowed or halted, favoring cultural rather than biological change, 7% of all human genes showed evidence of recent natural selection.
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