Nick Wade has a new article out,
Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story. Nothing that should surprise,
selection happens. I'm a little surprised that
Spencer Wells is putting in so much face time in Wade's article, to me this suggests that he might be moving on to his new schtick, studying
human morphological variation as opposed to scientific genealogy. The
original paper is in
PLOS. I'm not going to do the cut & paste thing, this is a free paper that you have access to, if you are a GNXP reader
read the whole thing. Remember, a) selection is stochastic, they come close to saying
what I said about the new skin color locus b) this paper misses sweeps that have already moved toward fixation. Expect far more in the next 6 months....
Update: I've put up a
short summary of the paper at
my other blog.
Update II: Check out this
commentary from Anthropology.net.