# Gregory Cochran
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Gregory M. Cochran (born 1953) is an American physicist, anthropologist and author who argues that cultural innovation resulted in new and constantly shifting selection pressures for genetic change, thereby accelerating human evolution and divergence between human races. From 2004 to 2015, he was a research associate at the anthropology department at the University of Utah. He is co-author of the book The 10,000 Year Explosion.
Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
First, the conventional wisdom. Because Homo sapiens are a young species and haven’t had time to genetically differentiate, we modern humans are all basically genetically identical. Because Homo sapiens figured out ways to use culture to overcome natural selection, human genetic evolution ceased ...
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Join myself and the Mises Institute's own, Marcel Gautreau, for a most enlightening conversation on Murray Rothbard, Leo Strauss and how their ideas influence (or don't) the current pillars of power.
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Join myself and the Mises Institute's own, Marcel Gautreau, for a most enlightening conversation on Murray Rothbard, Leo Strauss and how their ideas influence (or don't) the current pillars of power. Marcel Dumas Gautreau is an Economics PhD Graduate from George Mason University. His fields are...
Gregory Cochran: 15 years after The 10,000 Year Explosion
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to physicist Gregory Cochran. Cochran is best known for his work in human evolution, often at the intersection of biology, anthropology, and history. Trained in physics, he later turned to population genetics and became widely known through co...
