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- Summary
- 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 marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this original account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilization arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 288 pages
- Contents
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- Overview: conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- The 10,000 year explosion -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- Isbn
- 9780465002214
- Label
- The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution
- Title
- The 10,000 year explosion
- Title remainder
- how civilization accelerated human evolution
- Statement of responsibility
- Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
- Title variation
- Ten thousand year explosion
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this original account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilization arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed.--From publisher description
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- Cochran, Gregory
- Dewey number
- 599.93/8
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GN281.4
- LC item number
- .C632 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- GN 281.4
- NLM item number
- C663z 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Harpending, Henry
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Human evolution
- Genetics
- Biological Evolution
- Hominidae
- Civilization
- Genome
- Label
- The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution, Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index
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- Contents
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- Overview: conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- The 10,000 year explosion -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- Control code
- 191926088
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465002214
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008036672
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- unmediated
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- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191926088
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- The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution, Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index
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- volume
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- Contents
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- Overview: conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- The 10,000 year explosion -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts
- Control code
- 191926088
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 288 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465002214
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2008036672
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- unmediated
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