Most human populations develop agriculture sometime in the holosene. Different crops, e crops with varieties that are suited to different environments. And so agricultural practices vary enormously. Over the last ten thousand years, we fit ourselves to the local environments in a highly specializeda way. That seems to me to be an analogue of a, a genecticut active radiation that we know about from our evolution courses.
In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.