Books by Gregory Cochran
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The 10000 Year Explosion
The 10,000 Year Explosion
(2009-01-22)
The subtitle is How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution and the authors are Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. I do think that such topics should receive open debate but, as with Greg Clark's book, I'm not convinced. There is plenty on dog breeding, lactose intolerance, Genghis Khan and his children, the difficulties of settling the Andean Highlands, and just-so stories about medieval Ashkenazi Jews. What's missing is a sense of what the hypothesis does not explain, what its limitatio...