Jonathan Pritchard
Jonathan Pritchard
Jonathan Karl Pritchard is an English-born professor of genetics at Stanford University. His research interests lie in the study of human evolution, in particular in understanding the association between genetic variation among human individuals and human traits...
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This approach allows us to take a broad prospective to see what kinds of biological systems are undergoing adaptation. There have been a lot of recent changes--the advent of agriculture, shifts in diet, new habitats, climatic conditions--over the past 10,000 years, and we're using these data to look for those signals of very recent adaptation.
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Only one of these five signals was known before.
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I think my work is changing people's ideas about evolution, because now natural selection seems to have continued all the way up to the present day. There's no reason to think it stops now.
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There is ample evidence that selection has been a major driving point in our evolution during the last 10,000 years, and there is no reason to suppose that it has stopped.