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Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) argues that modern life has outpaced human evolution. The study suggests that ...

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