September 4, 2007 - 12:00am
By Alix Dorfman
According to a recent Cornell study, there may be something other than time that separates us from our deep ancestral backgrounds. In June of this year, several Cornell professors published a report in the Public Library of Science indicating that as much as 10 percent of the human genome has been subject to adaptations at the molecular level. They assert that the genome, the genetic context of an organism, has been altered by natural selection.
