Natural selection is not the only process that drives evolution

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

Why have some of our genes evolved rapidly? It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but research led by a group at Uppsala University, suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process has made a significant contribution to human evolution. Their results have been published today in the journal PLoS Biology...

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