
192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Holosene, a Gigantic Andactive Radiation of Humans
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.
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