Quoted from the Times Online on an interview with leading geneticist Professor Steve Jones, of University College London:
“Small populations which are isolated can evolve at random as genes are accidentally lost. World-wide, all populations are becoming connected and the opportunity for random change is dwindling. History is made in bed, but nowadays the beds are getting closer together. We are mixing into a global mass, and the future is brown.”

I wonder how long it will take before the world turns brown? Already, rebuttals are in.
From Gene Expression:
First, we’re nowhere close to panmixia. Second, there is going to …read more