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 marked end of significant biolo...
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New York :
Basic Books,
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Glossary.
