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SUBMITTER: Jeong C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4258478 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jeong Choongwon C Di Rienzo Anna A
Current opinion in genetics & development 20140815
After leaving sub-Saharan Africa around 50000-100000 years ago, anatomically modern humans have quickly occupied extremely diverse environments. Human populations were exposed to further environmental changes resulting from cultural innovations, such as the spread of farming, which gave rise to new selective pressures related to pathogen exposures and dietary shifts. In addition to changing the frequency of individual adaptive alleles, natural selection may also shape the overall genetic archite ...[more]