The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

By G. Gorelik, T. Shackelford. 2010

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The Nature of Race (2015, background): “A few examples are as follows: Miller (2010) and Gottfredson (2007) proposed gene-culture co-evolution models; Cochran and Harpending (2009) suggested that beneficial alleles could have been differentially acquired through adaptive introgression; to account for the global north-south cognitive abili”
Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010, background): “Moreover, human niche construction has likely affected evolutionary rates too, sometimes speeding them up and sometimes slowing them down (Hawks et al. 2007; Cochran and Harpending 2009; Laland et al. 2010).”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “…wake of the origins of agriculture and some controversial arguments hold that psychological traits as well as those related to disease and diet responded in a major way to the development of food production and the larger, more sophisticated societies it made possible (Cochran and Harpending 2009).”
The Cognitive Differentiation-Integration Effort Hypothesis: A Synthesis between the Fitness Indicator and Life History Models of Human Intelligence (2011, background): “Another significant point made by Cochran and Harpending (2009) is that civilization has had an accelerating effect on human evolution, enhancing traits such as intelligence over the last 10000 years through the provision and creation of new sociocultural niches bought about through innovations…”