Humans Evolving More Rapidly Than Ever

Look out, future, because here we come: scientists say the speed of human evolution increased rapidly during the last 40,000 years -- and it's only going to get faster.


The findings overturn the theory that ,modern life's relative ease has slowed or even stopped human adaptation. Selective pressures are still at work; they just happen to be different than those faced by our distant ancestors.

We're more different from people 5,000 years ago than they were from Neanderthals
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