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.
达尔文的进化论提出至今已有一百五十多年,它有两点伟大之处,一是击碎了宗教中“神造万物”的神话,二是将人类置于同其他生物一样的进化历程当中。 如今,绝大多数人对生命起源早已有了共识,但学界一般对人类的进化还放不下“妄自尊大”的架子。应该说,这种“妄自尊大”也并...
評分 評分 評分在一些考古学家和人类学家看来,自出“出非洲”以来,特别是最近的1万年间,人类的进化已经基本“停滞”了,那些能看到的比较明显的变化主要体现在文化方面,如果我们能够穿越,回到1万年前去看一看,应当发现那时的人类和现在没有任何生物上的区别。 对于这样的观点,本书的两...
評分人类还在进化吗? 辉格 2013年2月19日 对于人类为何会是现在这个样子的问题,在达尔文之前,可以说的大概只有“上帝照他自己样子造了我们”之类,而从达尔文以来,我们已经能够从许多方面更有意思的谈论它了,为何我们的眼睛会有盲点?因为我们的眼睛和其他脊椎动物的一样,最...
一萬年前,人類進入農業社會,從捕獵到農業社會的轉型給人類帶來瞭基因巨變。這本書解釋瞭乳糖不耐,歐洲猶太人超高智商,印第安人幾乎被滅族而非洲逃過一劫,等等的一個解釋。另外,原來4,5萬年前咱們還把智人的一支弟兄種族給wipe out瞭啊~所以說腦殼大是木有用滴
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