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Originally posted by Butters
I'm calling ******** on this one, if you look at statues of people from 1000 years ago, they don't look much different from people today
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Thank you. The article is a lot of ******** and it betrays a huge misunderstanding of how evolution actually works. That said, a thousand years is just 50 generations tops, and that simply is not enough time for changes as radical as this article claims to happen.
Gains in height due to greater nutrition have not been a result of big changes in the genome but instead of the body being able to spend greater energy on growth as opposed to fighting disease. The biggest human evolutionary change in the past couple of thousand years that I have read about is the spread in lack of lactose intolerance in adult humans, allowing a large portion of human adults to drink milk without negative consequences.