Convergent evolution of light skin color

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Simon

Norton et al in Mol. Biol. Evol. use data from the International Hapmap project (which we covered earlier) to test 6 human skin pigmentation genes for positive directional selection. They argue that this shows a pattern of convergent evolution towards ligter skin pigmentation in Europeans and East Asians. Abstract here

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