Welcome

This is the official website for the recently released biohistory book by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, The 10,000 Year Explosion.  Here is where you can buy the book, read outtakes and related things, peruse reviews and reactions, and learn a little more about the research and thought that went into this release. Below are links to each chapter summary and related content:

• Overview: Conventional Wisdom

• The Neanderthal Within

• Agriculture: The Big Change

• Consequences of Agriculture

• Gene Flow

• Expansions

• Medieval Evolution: How The Ashkenazi Jews Got Their Smarts

• Conclusion