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Measuring selection in contemporary human populations.

Nature reviews. Genetics - 1 Sept 2010

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

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Are humans currently evolving? This question can be answered using data on lifetime reproductive success, multiple traits and genetic variation and covariation in those traits. Such data are available in existing long-term, multigeneration studies - both clinical and epidemiological - but they have not yet been widely used to address contemporary human evolution. Here we review methods to predict evolutionary...

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PMID: 20680024
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2831

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