By Molly Przeworski, Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Hakhamanesh Mostafavi, Ph.D. Student in Biological Sciences, Columbia University, and Joe Pickrell, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University. As genes are favored or phased out, human evolution continues. ktsdesign/Shutterstock.com Human evolution can seem like a phenomenon of the distant past which applies only to our…