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Research Paper |
JAN 2002

Probing Human Origins

鈥淧robing Human Origins鈥 explores, from various perspectives, how humans became human. This collection of papers acknowledges the importance of genetic 鈥榖lueprints鈥 but rejects the idea that the DNA sequence of the human genome contains a book of instructions that defines being human. Instead, it promotes the idea that during humankind鈥檚 evolutionary history, genic changes occurred in ancestral genomes that were positively selected to help shape the distinctive human phenotype.
Authors Robert Boyd, Morris Goodman, and Anne Simon Moffat