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 in Europe marked end of signifi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cochran, Gregory
Otros Autores: Harpending, Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, ©2009.
Colección:Anthropology online.
Temas:
Human evolution.
Genetics.
Evolution (Biology)
Civilization.
Biological Evolution
Hominidae
Civilization
Genome > genetics
Genetics
Êtres humains > Évolution.
Génétique.
Évolution (Biologie)
Civilisation.
genetics.
evolution.
civilization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Human evolution
Hominisation
Zivilisation
Evolution
Människans utveckling.
Genom.
Hominider.
Nonfiction.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original 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 accelera.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
ISBN:9780786727506
0786727500
9780465002214
0465002218
0465020429
9780465020423

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