The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

The 10,000 Year Explosion is a groundbreaking book that challenges conventional wisdom on human evolution.

Written by top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, this book reveals that genetic change has accelerated in recent history, leading to the emergence of new traits such as lactose tolerance and adult milk tolerance.

This book provides a fascinating look at how these changes have played a pivotal role in human history, including the expansion of Indo-Europeans, European conquest of the Americas, and the rise of European Jews to intellectual prominence.

The authors argue that biology explains these phenomena, rather than culture or environment.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.