Why are we like this? (Ep 95)
Big Biology
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The Evolution of Hair Traits
The oldest hairs that I've heard of have been mummified hairs. So if you're only going back like a thousand years, a couple thousand years, you don't have enough time to really understand the number of generations over which natural selection occurs. How did natural selection, or even just population, neutral genetic drift, change what we see in terms of hair traits across humans? And looking at early human ancestors as well.
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