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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (1st Edition) by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-465-02042-9 / 0465020429 ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02042-3 / 9780465020423 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 biolo |