Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes

The NY Times reports:

Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A few hundred generations was just a blink of the evolutionary eye, it seemed. Besides, our cultural evolution -- our technology, agriculture and the rest -- must have overwhelmed our biological evolution by now.

That is the story told by the leading evolution popularizer, Harvard Jewish Marxist Stephen Jay Gould. He was wrong.

A vast study, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, suggests the opposite. Examining DNA from 15,836 ancient human remains, scientists found 479 genetic variants that appeared to have been favored by natural selection in just the past 10,000 years.

The researchers also concluded that thousands of additional genetic variants have probably experienced natural selection. Before the new study, scientists had identified only a few dozen variants. "There are so many of them that it's hard to wrap one's mind around them," said David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and an author of the new study.

See the Harvard study for details.

The main ideas are not really new. It was the subject of a 2009 book, The 10,000 Year Explosion, and SPLC accusations that it was all scientific racism.

A basic premise of the Left is that we are all the same. Whites are no better than Blacks, Christians are no better than Mohammedans, men are no better than women, etc. It is all a lie.