continue to evolve’. In the last 10,000 years or so, the pace of our evolution has speeded
up 100 times creating more mutations in our genes and hence, greater natural selection.

Some clues that show humans are evolving are

(i) Lactose Tolerance Historically the gene that regulated human’s ability to digest lactose
was shut down as infants are weaned off of their mother's breast milk. However, adult
human in regions of Africa and Northern Europe developed the ability to tolerate lactose
in their diets as recent as 5,000 or 6,000 years ago due to mutations.

(ii) Wisdom Teeth Our ancestors had much bigger jaws than we do to lactose their eating
habits. Today our jaws are much smaller and wisdom teeth are often impacted
estimates say that they will disappear in the coming population.