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Positive Selection: Is the Human Genome Evolving?

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UCSF biostatistics professor Dr. Katherine Pollard describes The Chimp Genome Project, which lists 15 genes associated with human diseases that originate in chimps. While some people have the "new human version" of the gene, others still have the "chimp version." Evidence, she claims, that humans are evolving away from their ancestral version.

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