On top you can see human population growth over time on a log scale, so the increase really is much sharper than what you see. Below is a chart which displays the number of selected variants which began to rise in frequency particular time in the past for 2 populations. There seems to be a concomitant rise in adaptive mutations which began to be selected along with increased population size.

has evolution sped up 100x for humanity? Up to 10% of the human genome appears to be evolving at the maximum rate, more quickly than ever before in human history.

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