For anyone writing evolution fiction the implications in this recent Life Scientist article can be amazing so long as writers avoid the typical eugenic pitfalls that so many writers of the late 19th century fell into. But, a side from those objections, exploring the exceptional diversity of humans is an incredibly fertile field for fiction.
Did you know that there is more genetic diversity between two individuals living only 800 kilometres apart in the Kalahari desert in southern Africa than there is between a European and an Asian living half a world apart?
If it wasn’t for the southern African genome project, co-led by Vanessa Hayes, no-one would have known this remarkable fact about humanity. More....
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