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

Gregory Cochran (Author), Henry Harpending (Author).
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (October 19, 2010).

Editorial Reviews:
Arguing that human genetic evolution is still ongoing, physicist-turned-evolutionary biologist Cochran and anthropologist Harpending marshal evidence for dramatic genetic change in the (geologically) recent past, particularly since the invention of agriculture. Unfortunately, much of their argument-including the origin of modern humans, agriculture, and Indo-Europeans-tends to neglect archaeological and geological evidence; readers should keep in mind that assumed time frames, like the age of the human species, are minimums at best and serious underestimates at worst...

Book review (January 7 2011):