Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming

 

The advent of farming led to new evolutionary pressures on humans. Image courtesy of  Christian Jegou/Science Photo Library

Joel Kontinen

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought.

When did humans really evolve according to Darwinism? According to the book of Genesis, they started at the advent of humanity, but the evolution believing people have a different view, supposing it was during the time man discovered farming.  

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in different parts of the world evolved in similar – and sometimes even identical – ways after we adopted farming.

“Some of the same traits and the same genes are under selection in different populations,” says Laura Colbran at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Michael Le Page 2026 Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming | New Scientist 10 March