The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution /
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 signifi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2009
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| Series: | Anthropology online.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly 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 accelera. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780786727506 0786727500 9780465002214 0465002218 0465020429 9780465020423 |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
