*Deaner, R. O., and C. L. Nunn. 1999. How quickly do brains catch up with bodies? A comparative method for detecting evolutionary lag. Proceedings of Biological Sciences 266 (1420):687–694. A recent scholarly article on the topic of evolutionary lag, the notion that our bodies and minds are at present equipped to deal with the world and living conditions as they were fifty thousand years ago, due to the amount of time it takes for adaptations to become encoded in the human genome.
