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Comment author: [deleted] 04 March 2013 04:29:10AM 1 point [-]

The traits that I am aware of that show strong evolution all have had thousands of years to be selected for, like lactose tolerance in people descended from herders, resistance to high altitude with a hemoglobin change in Tibet, apparent sexual selection for blue eyes in Europeans and thick hair in East Asians, smaller stature in basically all long-term agriculturalist populations...

-Cellbioguy, elsewhere in thread.

I suspect you've misidentified his contention here; he clearly doesn't seem to think humans haven't evolved within the Holocene.