The 10,000 Year Explosion

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

Authors	Gregory Cochran Henry Harpending
Language	English
Subject	Recent human evolution
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	2009
Media type	Print
Pages	304
ISBN	0-465-00221-8
Dewey Decimal	599.93'8-dc22
LC Class	GN281.4.c632 2009

The 10,000 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.^[1]

Some reviewers considered that the book raised valuable questions but relied on discredited views. Others criticized it for oversimplifying history and reifying the concept of race.