An author of the paper on recent human evolution was interviewed for the last 15 minutes of the first hour of Science Friday. The audio archive will be available soon. Also, I hear that you'll see a new article on this paper in The New York Times this weekend, so check for Nick Wade's byline.
Listened to it yet?
Interviewer: "So, now that we live in a cell phone society, we could imagine genes being selected that have to do will cell phone use?"
Pritchard: "um....right, well, um..."
good shit.
Listened to it yet?
yeah, i listened to it live. as for the cell phone thing, give flatow a break, heez an engineer! :)