Study: Humanity 'dumped' dangerous genes

Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

SAN DIEGO, June 5 (UPI) -- A change in two genes may have saved humanity from an evolutionary bottleneck 100,000 years ago that threatened our extinction, U.S. researchers say.

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