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# What the Discovery of an Extra Artery Means for Human Evolution
- URL: https://werd.io/what-the-discovery-of-an-extra-artery-means-for-human/
- Published: 2022-01-19T19:01:42.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-19T19:01:42.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“"The study demonstrates that humans are evolving at a faster rate than at any point in the past 250 years," said Teghan Lucas, lead author of the study and an archaeologist at Flinders University, in a press release. In fact, Lucas predicts that the median artery will continue to be a common occurrence in the human forearm far into the future.”

\[[Link](https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-the-discovery-of-an-extra-artery-means-for-human-evolution)\]