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Mother's milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age

  • Written by Leslea Hlusko, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Sunrise at noon in the Arctic. Little exposure to sun was a piece of the genetic puzzle.Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, CC BY

As biologists explore the variation across the genomes of living people, they’ve found evidence of evolution at work. Particular variants of genes increase or decrease in populations through time. Sometimes this...

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