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23 Ibid.

24 NewTreatments.org, http://www.newtreatments.org/index.

25 David and Zimmerman, “Cancer: An Old Disease.”

26 R. David, in Coghlan, “Briefing: Cancer Is Not.”

27 Deborah Mitchell, “Mummies Don’t Lie: Cancer Is Modern and Man Made,”
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28 Richard Alleyne, “Cancer Caused by Modern Man as It Was Virtually Non-existent in Ancient World,”
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29 “Report to the Nation Finds Continuing Declines in Cancer Death Rates since the Early 1990s,” NCI Press Release, National Cancer Institute, accessed August 2012, http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/2012/ReportNationRelease2012.

30 Waldron, “What Was the Prevalence?”

31 Nerlich and Bachmeier, “Paleopathology of Malignant Tumours.”

32 Coghlan, “Briefing: Cancer Is Not.”

33 Finch, “Evolution of the Human Lifespan.”

34 Greaves, “Darwinian Medicine.”

35 Crespi, “Emergence of Human-Evolutionary Medical Genomics.”

36 Ibid.

Chapter 10: Are We Still Evolving? A Tale of Genes, Altitude, and Earwax

1 Stiffler, January 7, 2010 (12:08 p.m.), comment on C. Zimmer, “The Origin of the Future: Death by Mutation?”
The Loom
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2 klcarbaugh, October 31, 2009 (12:22 p.m.), comment on topic “Human Evolution Speeding Up,”
Caveman Forum
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3 Destor, October 4, 2010 (12:04 p.m.), comment on topic “Rapid Evolutionary Adaptations,”
Caveman Forum
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4 BragonDorn, January 7, 2012 (5:22 p.m.), comment on Heskew, “Are Humans Still Evolving?”
Sports Abode
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5 Alfred Lord Tennyson,
In Memoriam A. H. H.

6 Greg, “On the Failure.”

7 Tait, “Has the Law of Natural Selection?”

8 Darwin,
Descent of Man
, 501.

9 Shepherd, “Lawson Tait.”

10 McKie, “Is Human Evolution Finally Over?”

11 Stock, “Are Humans Still Evolving?”

12 Meredith Small, quoted in “Ask the Experts: Are Human Beings Still Evolving? It Would Seem That Evolution Is Impossible Now That the Ability to Reproduce Is Essentially Universally Available. Are We Nevertheless Changing as a Species?”
Scientific American
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13 Hawks, “Human Evolution Stopping?”

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid.

16 Ibid.

17 Balter, “Are Humans Still Evolving?”

18 Byars et al., “Natural Selection.”

19 Ibid.

20 Stearns et al., “Measuring Selection.”

21 Milot et al., “Evidence for Evolution.”

22 Stearns et al., “Measuring Selection.”

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid.

25 Yi et al., “Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes.”

26 Simonson et al., “Genetic Evidence.”

27 Storz, “Genes for High Altitudes.”

28 Williamson et al., “Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution.”

29 Ibid.

30 Hernandez et al., “Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare.”

31 Yoshiura et al., “SNP in the
ABCC
11 Gene.”

32 Ward, “What Will Become of
Homo sapiens
?”

33 Allen, “Why Humans Are Crazy for Crispy.”

34 Graves, “Feel as Happy as a Pig in Mud!”

35 Michelle, January 4, 2012, comment on M. Sisson, “How Much Have Human Dietary Requirements Evolved in the Last 10,000 Years?”
Mark’s Daily Apple
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