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908 Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/15/2026 23:30 EDT

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our technology, agriculture and the rest -- must have overwhelmed our biological evolution by now. A vast study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggests the opposite. Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists

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