PLoS Computational Biology has an article in the pipeline on detecting natural selection in humans in chimps. The authors looked for genes evolving at unequal rates between the two species and genes with signals of positive selection. I have not read the entire article, but it looks like a good attempt to distinguish actual positive selection from changes in selective constraint.
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This is a guest post by Carl Bajema, a retired evolutionary biologist, first posted on the Richard Dawkins website on Darwin's birthday.
I long ago noticed that David Sloan Wilson was a contributor to The Huffington Post.