Genome study places modern humans in evolutionary fast lane
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:14 am
http://www.news.wisc.edu/14548
Countering a common theory that human evolution has slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, a new study examining data from an international genomics project describes the past 40,000 years as a time of supercharged evolutionary change, driven by exponential population growth and cultural shifts