Evolution Experiment!!!

Question

Lets say you grabbed a bunch of people, settled them in a region with constant conflict and war, in which they have to fight on a very regular basis for hundreds of years, and then pull them out, would then the later generations of those people who have been born after the experiment and thus never experienced violence, have a genetic advantage regarding warfare compared to average people??

i know it would take thousands of years for people to adapt and evolve, but are few hundreds of years sufficient to even cause a slight change in our genes??

scientific answers plz :)

Answer 1

A few hundreds of years is only a few generations in human lifetimes.  In general, that is not a very long time.  

There are a few ways for evolution to happen.  One is gradual through self selection (sexual selection).  In the world you describe, people might be pickier about who their mate is, given the constant danger -- so traits of strength, or speed will tend to get passed on.  I doubt with just a few generations that you will really see this effect.

The other way is through random mutations -- many of which serve no purpose until you get enough to create a new trait that has some advantage.  For that you're taking about hundreds of generations, if not more.  The evolution experiments on e-coli (lookup Richard Lenski's stuff.. shows radical new traits around the 27000th generation!