The 10000 year explosion how civilization accelerated human evolution is a 2009 book by anthropologists gregory cochran and henry harpending starting with their own take on the conventional wisdom that the evolutionary process stopped when modern humans appeared the authors explain the genetic basis of their view that human evolution is accelerating illustrating it with some examples reviewers considered that while the book raised valuable questions some assumptions also relied on discred. This item the 10000 year explosion how civilization accelerated human evolution by gregory cochran paperback 1799 only 9 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom. The 10000 year explosion how civilization accelerated human evolution by gregory cochran and henry harpending is the work of two professors one a physicist and the other an anthropologist its about the idea that human evolution has not only not ceased but it has even gotten faster recently. The 10 000 year explosion how civilization accelerated human evolution kindle edition by cochran gregory henry harpending download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading the 10 000 year explosion how civilization accelerated human evolution. Our book the 10000 year explosion is mostly about the long term dance between culture and genetics usually these two forces are considered as opponents one wearing a white hat and the other black but thats a false picture theyre more co conspirators culture can shape genetics