Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase
If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long story, you'd say: Things are pretty wild right now. Our story on Nov. 29 looked at a different aspect of a well-reported study from Nature on the most massive study of genetic variation yet, that as a species, we are freshly bursting with the raw material of evolution.