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    Which geneticist found and postulated an equation which predicted/proved that the human genome was changing 100 times the predicted rates of natural selection?

    Question #88575. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Nov 15 07 8:36 PM)


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    		John Hawks estimates that positive selection just in the past 5,000 years alone — around the period of the Stone Age — has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution

    http://www.news.wisc.edu/14548

    Dec 31 07, 6:30 PM

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