What You Think You Know About Human Evolution Is Wrong
8th March 2020
Yet another in a long series of ‘journalism’ that starts out by insulting its readers. Gets tiring after a while.
In a recent study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, we compared the complete genomes of over 100 organisms (mostly animals), to study how the animal kingdom has evolved at the genetic level. Our results show that the origins of major groups of animals, such as the one comprising humans, are linked not to the addition of new genes but to massive gene losses.