Sex at Dawn

Exploring the evolutionary origins of modern sexuality.

Do These Genes Fit Right?

Some human genes are changing faster than others.

Science Daily has an article highlighting a new technique that seems to allow researchers to home in on specific genes undergoing rapid selection in a given population. If this pans out, it could be useful in determining what sorts of physiological changes humans have undergone in recent millennia, since agriculture, for example. We make a pretty radical assertion in our book about the sorts of changes men's testicles may have undergone recently. This technique might provide a way of confirming or disproving our assertion. 



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Christopher Ryan, Ph.D., is co-author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (HarperCollins 2010).

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