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In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity

Adam Rutherford asks how our ability to talk, travel and develop technology - our unique human culture - affects human genetic evolution

Radio 4,2 episodes

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Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
Is human culture stopping us from genetically evolving?
16 Aug 2011,30 mins
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
The effect of globalisation and a greater choice of partners on human genetic evolution.
23 Aug 2011,30 mins