Cochran, Gregory — The 10,000 Year Explosion – How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution Part One
Have humans changed in the last 10,000 years? Are we biologically the same as we have been for the past 60,000 years? Recent evidence suggests that so called civilization has promoted rapid evolutionary change in our species in the last 10,000 years.
In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Gregory Cochran, a physicist and anthropologist, who is the co-author of the book “The 10,000 Year Explosion – How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution”. His book asserts that changes in human biology, lactose tolerance and resistance to malaria for example, represent human evolution accelerated by civilization.
In this, the first of two Radio Curious conversations with Gregory Cochran we discuss some of these evolutions.
In part two we discuss the evolution and genetic mutations of race and physiology.
I spoke with Gregory Cochran from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 23, 2009 and began by asking him what biological indications exist to show an increase in human evolution in the past 10,000 years and why they occurred.
The book Gregory Cochran recommends is “Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Re-Wilding of America” by Paul S. Martin
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on February 14th, 2025 at 11:23 am
This following exchange with my local radio station manager who carries your program:
“It’s 845 on Feb 14. Really scary eugenics science show on right now. Please screen your Pacifica feed better!!!
Just because they sound smart, doesn’t mean they are. Gregory Cochran on Radio Curious. Yikes!
Radio Curious is usually pretty good. There is unfortunately no way we can listen to and screen every show we broadcast. The description seemed OK, and sounded like a reasonable proposition.
Have humans changed in the last 10,000 years? Or are we biologically the same as the last 40-50,000 years. Some recently considered evidence suggests that so called civilization has promoted rapid evolutionary change in our species in the last 10,000 years. In this archive edition of Radio Curious we visit with Gregory Cochran, a physicist and anthropologist, who has co-authored the book The 10,000 Year Explosion ” How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. His book asserts that changes in human biology, lactose tolerance and resistance to malaria for example, represent human evolution accelerated by civilization.
Over the course of two Radio Curious conversations with Gregory Cochran we discuss what some of these evolutions have been and why they occurred. We spoke with Gregory Cochran from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 23rd, 2009 and began by asking him what biological indications exist to show an increase in human evolution in the past 10,000 years.
The book Gregory Cochran recommends is Twilight Of The Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions And The Re-Wilding Of America, by Paul S. Martin.
Thanks for letting us know your concerns.
Thank you for your reply. Yes, I often hear it and it’s good.
I see the description and of course it sounds innocuous.
This one was absent any indigenous knowledge base and quite offensive in some of his remarks and scientific approaches. For sure it would appeal to northern europeans: skull size, how to make blue eyes, skin tone. and he was quite incorrect about people being taller in wet rainy climates. There are quite tall people in sub saharan Africa. He didn’t make any racist remarks perse.And framed it as all observational science and what’s in the record.
But it was totally racist. I thought i was listening to a book from a few centuries ago. When the Irish (one of my ancestries) were deemed less than human going with the science out of England of the day.
I have a knee jerk reaction to that.
Thanks for hearing me
have a good weekend.
Maybe I will write to Radio Curious about it.
Thanks