A friend sent me this link this morning. It's a story about a paper just written by John Hawks, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist, who says, "We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals."

Contrary to popular belief that evolution has slowed down, and humans have weakened genetically during our years as civilized beings, evidence from the Human Genome Project shows we are evolving faster than ever, particularly in terms of becoming resistant to a wide variety of diseases. A gene that evolved in northern Europe to allow us to digest milk into adulthood is another example.

Look at the full story here.