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An English zoologist, he wrote an immensely popular 1967 book arguing that ancient genes, shared with apes, shape our lives.

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Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

Another complication is that sustained genetic variation does not emerge exclusively as a result of natural selection.