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The past 10,000 years have seen rapid skeletal and dental evolution in human populations, as well as the appearance of many new genetic responses to diet and disease.

Human migrations into new European and Asian environments created selective pressures favoring less skin pigmentation (so more sunlight could be absorbed through the skin to make Vitamin D), adaptation to cold weather and dietary changes.

One example of a genetic adaptation to human culture involves the gene that makes the milk-digesting enzyme lactase.

The gene normally stops activity about the time a person becomes a teenager, but northern Europeans developed a variation of the gene that allowed them to drink milk their whole lives -- a relatively new adaptation that is directly tied to the introduction of domestic farming and use of milk as an agricultural product

Excerted from:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071211/sc_...

How do religious people explain away recent evolutionary leaps if evolution doesn't exist?

I'm a Christian and I believe in Evolution... It's a fact!!!

I just like to believe that God whom in my eyes created life, made us evolve to adjust with the changes to come.

How do religious people explain away recent evolutionary leaps if evolution doesn't exist?

It ain't sexy (or intelligent), but here's the answer:

Because they don't WANT to.

(sigh)

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