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Arizona State University

Research Infographic

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Four-thousand to 8,000 years ago, there was an extreme reduction in the number of males who reproduced, but not in the number females. Wealth and power may have played a stronger role in shaping recent human evolution than "survival of the fittest."

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Sabine Deviche

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