History looks more and more like a science fiction novel in which mutants repeatedly arose and displaced normal humans - sometimes quietly, by surviving starvation and disease better, sometimes as a conquering horde. And we are those mutants."
Monday, October 22, 2012
Mutants
Greg Cochrane, co-author of The 10,000 Year Explosion:
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I *knew* it.
I enjoyed "The 10,000-Year Explosion." It made a good case for differences among populations that reflect how long ago they developed agriculture -- resistance to alcohol, for instance, or resistance to a high-carb diet, or the ability to tolerate lactose.
Well, now I know what's next on my Kindle list...
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