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Colloquium papers: Natural selection in a contemporary human population.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jan 2010

Byars Sean G, Ewbank Douglas, Govindaraju Diddahally R, Stearns Stephen C

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Our aims were to demonstrate that natural selection is operating on contemporary humans, predict future evolutionary change for specific traits with medical significance, and show that for some traits we can make short-term predictions about our future evolution. To do so, we measured the strength of selection, estimated genetic variation and covariation, and predicted the response to selection for women in the...

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PMID: 19858476
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906199106
PMCID: PMC2868295

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