Re: Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

"DK" <dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tim Tyler <seemysig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rapid acceleration in human evolution described

Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several
thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists had thought,
researchers said on Monday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1043228620071210

Lets just wait for the paper to be published. Stuff like
"people today are genetically more different from people living
5,000 years ago than those humans were different from the
Neanderthals who vanished 30,000 years ago" without explanation
what exactly was a quantitative measure of "difference" is just
to journalistic to swallow.

The first author maintains very popular blog
http://www.johnhawks.net/weblog/ and I am sure he will
eventually expound on all of it in detail but for now things are
unclear - lots of hype, no facts.

DK

I think this is what matters. Yesterday there was a link to the Wisconsin
paper here, which I printed off but now the follow-up paper seems to be
being discussed.....

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/evolution/selection/acceleration_embargo_ends_2007.html




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