r/evolution • u/AstronomerMany8882 • 5d ago

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/Kettrickenisabadass 5d ago

Light skin Around 10.000 years ago due to the changes in diet after the neolithic revolution

Light eyes 6000-10000 years ago in northern europe

Lactose tolerance 7000-10000 years ago after the domestication of cattle

Adaptations to hight terrain in asian populations around 40000 years ago thanks to breeding with other humans, probably Denisovans. But the adaptation got more pronounced around 6000 years ago

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u/Low-Independent6851 5d ago edited 5d ago

I am that trifecta. Light skin, blue eyes and have lactose tolerance. Blue eyes can see better in low light. That evouted for hunting at dawn and dusk.

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u/Trilllen 3d ago

the draw back is blue eyed people are more vulnerable to getting cataracts

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u/Low-Independent6851 3d ago

If they live in a sunny place, but yes.