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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
Scientists have long believed that a “great leap forward? some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. But top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending argue otherwise: not only has the human species undergone a storm of genetic change after civilization arose, human evolution ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780465020423
ISBN-10: 0465020429
Publication Date: 11/23/2010
Pages: 304
Edition: First Trade Paper Ed
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Publisher: Basic Books
Book Type: Paperback
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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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