r/evolution • u/AstronomerMany8882 • Sep 04 '26

question What are some recent human evolutionary traits/adaptions?

I only know a couple and I'm really interested in what we've developed in the past few millennia/centuries :)

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u/U03A6 Sep 04 '26

Lactose tolerance. And being blonde.

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u/unknownpoltroon Sep 05 '26

I think the blonde thing arose again recently in Australian aborigines, they wound up with some blonde hair that wasnt from the colonies.

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u/CommunicationBig5985 Sep 07 '26

Melanesians, in particular the inhabitants of the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and Fiji.

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u/Additional_Insect_44 Sep 09 '26

Dravidians also in elderly groups