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Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

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Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act on.

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...