Mind & Life
Longevity, neuroscience, and health breakthroughs
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Humans Are Still Evolving, and in Some Bizarre Ways
Five recent studies show natural selection still at work in living people: Turkana kidneys tuned for 1.5 liters of water a day, Bajau spleens 50% larger for diving, skin that lightened in under 40,000 years, myopia genes spreading within 25 years, and a shift from genetic to cultural inheritance.
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Epigenetic clocks are maturing—what they can (and cannot) tell us about aging
Biological age tests are leaving the lab. Here is how to read the science without mistaking a score for a cure.