Advances in DNA sequencing and supercomputing have given us the power to understand evolution at a level of detail that just a few years ago would have been impossible, said Dr. Pollard, who is also a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Franciscos (UCSFs) Institute for Human Genetics. In this study, we found stretches of DNA that evolved much more quickly than others. We believe that these fast-evolving stretches were crucial to our human ancestors becoming distinct from our closest primate relatives.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:40:58 +0000
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