Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
There has been much research into the factors that have influenced the human genome since the end of the last Ice Age. Anthropologists, geneticists and archaeologists have analyzed ancient DNA from skeletons and found that selection has had a significant effect on the human genome even in the past 5,000 years, resulting in sustained changes to the appearance of people.