The 10,000 Year Explosion

Gregory Cochran is a physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah. For many years, he worked on lasers and image enhancement in the field of aerospace. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Henry Harpending holds the Thomas Chair as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah. He is a member of the National Acad

出版者:Basic Books

作者:Gregory Cochran

页数:304

出版时间:January 26, 2009

价格:27

装帧:硬皮

isbn号码:9780465002214

图书标签:人类学科普进化进化论evolutionBiology遗传学遗传

A manifesto for and an example of a new kind of history, a biological history, and not just of the prehistoric era Scientists have long believed that the 'great leap forward' that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked the end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunning 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 accelerated after civilisation arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed. A provocative and fascinating look at human evolution, "The 10,000 Year Explosion" reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.

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正如卢梭所言：人生而自由，然而无往不在枷锁之中。 对于一个人，肉体是我们的枷锁。对于一个物种，遗传物质（DNA）是我们的枷锁。 从文化角度，否认这种枷锁或许是一种进步，或者说是从过去痛苦经验带来的反省。但从科学角度来说却是政治正确带来的新的枷锁。 列维-斯特劳斯《...  

002|123，《一万年的爆发》 副标题是“文明如何加速人类进化”，感觉像复利增长。人类创造了文明，文明加速了人类进化。 大众观点：自六万年前，现在智人走出非洲，便停止了进化（即当下智人基因跟过去四万年的智人没有很大区别）但，本书认为智人没有停止进化，甚至觉得“犹太...  

讲了和语言有相关性的基因，作者倾向于认为尼安德特人即使有那个基因，也很可能没有语言能力，而尼安德特人和智人的结合，很可能是4万年前人类文明爆发式增长的原因，以及提供了一些农业革命后人类进化的证据。其余部分，印象最深的是讲犹太人的进化历史。欧洲的犹太人因为各种...

“革命性的新观点，人类进化从未停止。一部挑战《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》的有关人类社会与文明的著作。”这是《一万年的爆发：文明如何加速人类进化》百度百科和豆瓣读书里的一段简介，我本人对于这种拿别人的作品当垫脚石，或者是蹭热度做法十分反感，不管这本书的内容有多么的有...  

达尔文的进化论提出至今已有一百五十多年，它有两点伟大之处，一是击碎了宗教中“神造万物”的神话，二是将人类置于同其他生物一样的进化历程当中。 如今，绝大多数人对生命起源早已有了共识，但学界一般对人类的进化还放不下“妄自尊大”的架子。应该说，这种“妄自尊大”也并...  

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X-man

一万年前，人类进入农业社会，从捕猎到农业社会的转型给人类带来了基因巨变。这本书解释了乳糖不耐，欧洲犹太人超高智商，印第安人几乎被灭族而非洲逃过一劫，等等的一个解释。另外，原来4，5万年前咱们还把智人的一支弟兄种族给wipe out了啊~所以说脑壳大是木有用滴

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