A decent article on small scale evolutionary changes in human populations in the Washington Post.
More detail and an actual Synopsis or pointer to the papers - PLoS Bio and here in Science (subscription) would have been nice.
PS as The Loom notes, the QT movie accompanying the piece is moronic and misleading.
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I'll grab the original paper soon as I can see it on Proc Roy Soc (Lockwood and Frölich in press)
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