Our Brains are Evolving

Interesting bit of news here. Our brains continue to evolve. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that not everyone has some of the genes that are believed to have evolved!

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"Just as major environmental changes in the past favored the selection of genetic traits that increased survival skills, the pressures on gene selection today come from an increasingly complex and technologically oriented society, said Lahn, a professor of human genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator."




Brain image from www.wikipedia.org - also found there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain#Myths