With population rise, natural laws purge nastiest genes

Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 08:30 in Biology & Nature

As human population grows, disease-causing genetic mutations per individual increase, but each mutation is less harmful, when compared with a population that is not growing, says a Cornell study to...

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