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Following the Dynamics of Structural Variants in Experimentally Evolved Populations
Published on: February 3, 2023
Is there still evolution in the human population?
Ádám Kun1,2,3,4,5
1Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. kunadam@elte.hu.
Abstract:
It is often claimed that humanity has stopped evolving because modern medicine erased all selection on survival. Even if that would be true, and it is not, there would be other mechanisms of evolution which could still led to changes in allelic frequencies. Here I show, by applying basic evolutionary genetics knowledge, that we expect humanity to evolve. The results from genome sequencing projects have repeatedly affirmed that there are still recent signs of selection in our genomes. I give some examples of such adaptation. Then I briefly discuss what our evolutionary future has in store for us.
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