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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
The 10000 Year Explosion How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Author: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. — Scientists have long believed that the ?great leap forward? that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465002214
ISBN-10: 0465002218
Publication Date: 1/26/2009
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Interesting and concise review of recent thinking about human evolution. Documents the scientific and historical basis for the theory that human evolution is not only continuing but, as a result of a variety of cultural and technological factors, accelerating. (Calls to mind the book/film "2001 A Space Odyssey' a bit)


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