Gregory Cochran is a physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. For many years, he worked on lasers and image enhancement in the field of aerospace. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Henry Harpending holds the Thomas Chair as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. He is a member of the National Acad
A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long believed that the 'great leap forward' that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunning 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 civilisation arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. 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. A provocative and fascinating look at human evolution, "The 10,000 Year Explosion" reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.
正如卢梭所言:人生而自由,然而无往不在枷锁之中。 对于一个人,肉体是我们的枷锁。对于一个物种,遗传物质(DNA)是我们的枷锁。 从文化角度,否认这种枷锁或许是一种进步,或者说是从过去痛苦经验带来的反省。但从科学角度来说却是政治正确带来的新的枷锁。 列维-斯特劳斯《...
評分 評分 評分年前土摩托在介绍《一万年爆发》这本书并写了篇书评后,引发了一些争论。 这本书的基本内容和观点,已有人总结,可参考 http://www.immusoul.com/archives/2149.html http://book.douban.com/review/5774002/ 一、观点: 这边书的核心观点主要是: 1,近三万年来,人类演化不...
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