PLoS Biology (the people that brought you the recent paper from Jonathan Pritchard on detecting selection in the human genome and George Zhang's paper on selection on human pseudogenes) has published an editorial on detecting natural selection. It is a good follow up to my series on detecting natural selection using molecular data.
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