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Is technology steering human evolution?

Is technology changing at too fast a pace for our genetic material? Has human evolution halted? We find out!
31 March 2014
Presented by Hannah Critchlow. 
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Is technology changing at too fast a pace for our genetic material? Has human evolution halted? We find out!

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Evolution, ape skeletons. Gibbon now shown at natural size.

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Is technology changing at too fast a pace for our genetic material? Has human evolution halted? We find out!
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