Paul Burton: Are We Still Subject to Natural Selection?
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Are humans still subject to natural selection? The answer is an emphatic yes. Man has rapidly evolved during the past 30,000 years. Some examples of evolutionary change: body size, smaller jaws, straight black hair, blue eyes, lactose tolerance, and earlier puberty. Hundreds of new gene variations have been catalogued that reflect recent evolutionary changes. The bottom line: Darwin still rules. (J. Hawks, in Scientific American, Sept., 2014; other sources)