How farming changed us: Ancient DNA reveals natural selection sped up in recent human evolution

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...
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Ancient DNA shows that human evolution never slowed down — it sped up after farming

Learn more about new research that analyzed 16,000 ancient genomes and discovered that natural selection hasn’t slowed down.
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Gene variant that protects against norovirus spread with arrival of agriculture, prehistoric DNA reveals

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University ...