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Natural selection and quantitative genetics of life-history traits in Western women: a twin study.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2001
Kirk K M, Blomberg S P, Duffy D L, Heath A C, Owens I P, Martin N G
Abstract excerpt
Whether contemporary human populations are still evolving as a result of natural selection has been hotly debated. For natural selection to cause evolutionary change in a trait, variation in the trait must be correlated with fitness and be genetically heritable and there must be no genetic constraints to evolution. These conditions have rarely been tested in human populations. In this study, data from a large...
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