The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans

Working in East Africa in the 1950s, Tony Allison was the first researcher to find a connection between the infectious parasitic disease malaria and the genetic disease sickle cell anemia. H... Read allWorking in East Africa in the 1950s, Tony Allison was the first researcher to find a connection between the infectious parasitic disease malaria and the genetic disease sickle cell anemia. His discovery is among the first and best-understood examples of natural selection, where t... Read allWorking in East Africa in the 1950s, Tony Allison was the first researcher to find a connection between the infectious parasitic disease malaria and the genetic disease sickle cell anemia. His discovery is among the first and best-understood examples of natural selection, where the selective agent, adaptive mutation, and critical molecules involved are known--and all ... Read all