[Pharmboy]

The researchers also found evidence of evolutionary selection when they compared the regulatory sequences in people from different populations -- including those from Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, India, Italy and Papua New Guinea. Those analyses showed higher differences among the individual populations, but reduced variation within them. Such a pattern is a signature of evolutionary selection acting on the genetic sequence, said Wray.

Didn't Richard Lewontin and the late SJ Gould always tell us that there was more genetic variation within populations than between different populations worldwide? More proof of lefty liars in academic science when it suits their agenda...

[VadeRetro]

Didn't Richard Lewontin and the late SJ Gould always tell us that there was more genetic variation within populations than between different populations worldwide? More proof of lefty liars in academic science when it suits their agenda...

This just sounds wrong. The difference between selection and neutral drift would be that drift would show less pattern of any sort. I can't imagine what would produce the effect you say Gould and Lewontin predicted. It almost sounds self-contradictory. How would humans compared to apes be more similar than sub-groups of humans compared to each other?