Thursday, December 22, 2005

Human evolution and genetic diversification has been speeding up since we came Out of Africa

Steve Sailer:

One of the dogmas of Evolutionary Psychologyâ„¢ is that human beings stopped evolving after the "Era of Evolutionary Adaptation," which presumably was before modern humans left Africa, which was probably 50,000 or more years ago. Bob Moyzis, Eric Wang et al now have a paper finally out entitled "Global landscape of recent inferred Darwinian selection for Homo sapiens" [pdf] that Greg Cochran has been telling me about for months. It punches a big hole in the Evolutionary Psychologists' assumption about the genetic identicality of human racial groups.

More revelations about the genetics of race

Natural selection in the last 50,000 years

Positive selection in NAT2 gene

Ancient balanced polymorphism preserved in Chinese ethnic minorities

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