Rapid Acceleration in Human Evolution Described

This Reuters article is interesting for many reasons. One of them is the apparent evolution regarding diet – because many arguments for low-carbohydrate diets have (as one of their bases anyway) the idea that humans have not evolved to accommodate the relatively new arrival of agriculture. I’ll have more to say about this later – I’m reading Good Calories, Bad Calories by science journalist Gary Taubes after being extremely impressed by him on NPR.