The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, has a website up, http://the10000yearexplosion.com. If there is an accelerating wave of media coverage that would probably be the place to track it....
- Log in to post comments
More like this
The normal story we are told is that as rose civilization, so declined evolution. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, inverts that formula as indicated by the title. The idea that humans are beyond evolution isn't limited just to non-scientists, Steve Jones…
How inevitable was modern human civilization - data:
To me it looks like life, animals with nervous systems, Upper Paleolithic-style Homo, language, and behavioral modernity were all extremely unlikely events (notice how far ago they are - vaguely ~3.5bln, ~600mln, ~3mln, ~200k or ~600k, ~50k years…
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, is now available from Amazon & fine local bookstores. Over at 2 Blowhards one of the authors Greg Cochran has done a 5-part interview: part 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Set some time aside, there's a lot there....
Michael Blowhard is doing a 4-part interview with Greg Cochran on his new book, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Part 1 is up.
The site's author is "Naglfar"? Is that a Norse thing? Or is he/she a black metal fan? Or is it just an in-joke?
from Wikipedia:
"The ship (Naglfar) will lead hordes against the gods in the last war at the end of time, before a new world will arise from the sea."
Question for Dr. Harpending:
From the outtakes:
"For some reason, anthropologists treat behavioral modernity as a qualitative character ... behavioral modernity must be more like height than pregnancy."
This is in reference to ancient human populations. Do contemporary human populations differ in genetic potential for degree of behavioral modernity, like they do in genetic potential for height?
"Do contemporary human populations differ in genetic potential for degree of behavioral modernity, like they do in genetic potential for height?"
First you have to come up with a definition of behavioral modernity that you like, then figure out how to measure it.
Beats me.
HCH