A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 18:20 in Biology & Nature

Two to three million years ago, the functional loss of a single gene triggered a series of significant changes in what would eventually become the modern human species, altering everything from fertility rates to increasing cancer risk from eating red meat.

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