Posted on 12/12/2007 7:22:02 AM PST by Renfield
Residents of various continents becoming increasingly different
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If evolution had been proceeding steadily at the current rate since humans and chimps separated 6 million years ago, there should be 160 times more differences than the researchers found.
That indicates that human evolution had been slower in the distant past, Harpending explained.
Rapid population growth has been coupled with vast changes in cultures and ecology, creating new opportunities for adaptation, the study says. The past 10,000 years have seen rapid skeletal and dental evolution in human populations, as well as the appearance of many new genetic responses to diet and disease.
And they found that different changes are occurring in Africans, Asians and Europeans
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Guess they don’t really know.
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