Natural selection continued to sculpt humanity’s genetic identity after the Stone Age gave way to farming around 11,000 years ago, according to a new DNA analysis.
A team led by Jonathan K. Pritchard of the University of Chicago identified survival-enhancing gene variants that began spreading through human populations between roughly 10,800 and 6,600 years ago.
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