Today there are an estimated 6 billion people populating planet Earth. In spite of the many terrors that modern man has created [read nuclear weapons, advanced machinery, global warming, medicine wars, etc.] the Homo sapien race has flourished rather well.
Numerous developments in medicine, machinery and agriculture have also facilitated human survival in adverse environs. The human race today can attempt to claim that it can adapt to any environment, albeit a little hesitantly. But such an advanced state of development can hardly point out with clarity that the human race has stopped evolving.
A new study pointing to a contrary situation is doing the rounds in scientific circles today though. According to this study, human evolution has accelerated in the past 40,000 years and has zoomed a 100 times ahead in the past 5000 years alone. The fact that an increasing number of human beings are inter-breeding is apparently inconsequential if this analysis is anything to go by.
These proceedings indicate human evolution acceleration in about 1800 genes, roughly making up 7 percent of the human genome. According to John Hawks, lead author of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a major segment of the mutation is the result of intense population booms.
Such mutation can be good news for us humans as scientists believe that the more the mutations, the better are the chances of genes that can improve human survival. Though research and data are still being collated to further this study, there are several advances that have been made.
If human evolutionary acceleration is really to be believed then there may be hope for improving resistance to diseases like malaria, AIDS and yellow fever. The National Institute of Science Media [NISM] is a leading publisher of study resources and material pertaining to the sciences and related fields.
Joel Ball, lead author of the titles published under the NISM name is a renowned figure in publishing and scientific circles. To know more about the books published by the NISM, click here.
Numerous developments in medicine, machinery and agriculture have also facilitated human survival in adverse environs. The human race today can attempt to claim that it can adapt to any environment, albeit a little hesitantly. But such an advanced state of development can hardly point out with clarity that the human race has stopped evolving.
A new study pointing to a contrary situation is doing the rounds in scientific circles today though. According to this study, human evolution has accelerated in the past 40,000 years and has zoomed a 100 times ahead in the past 5000 years alone. The fact that an increasing number of human beings are inter-breeding is apparently inconsequential if this analysis is anything to go by.
These proceedings indicate human evolution acceleration in about 1800 genes, roughly making up 7 percent of the human genome. According to John Hawks, lead author of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a major segment of the mutation is the result of intense population booms.
Such mutation can be good news for us humans as scientists believe that the more the mutations, the better are the chances of genes that can improve human survival. Though research and data are still being collated to further this study, there are several advances that have been made.
If human evolutionary acceleration is really to be believed then there may be hope for improving resistance to diseases like malaria, AIDS and yellow fever. The National Institute of Science Media [NISM] is a leading publisher of study resources and material pertaining to the sciences and related fields.
Joel Ball, lead author of the titles published under the NISM name is a renowned figure in publishing and scientific circles. To know more about the books published by the NISM, click here.
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