The Red Queen’s Race, 1871, “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll Cultural evolution has been dragging us into new environments of adaptation and selection. Far from replacing genetic evolution, it has caused the human genome to evolve faster.
Very interesting post. The intertwinement of genetic and cultural evolution is very convincing. Given the point about inertia in large population, is it a common view that in the (relatively) recent past selection may have slowed down in large scale societies?
I think the book to turn to (for laymen) is "The 10.000 year explosion" by Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending from 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion "Starting with their own take on the conventional wisdom that the evolutionary process stopped when modern humans appeared, the authors explain the genetic basis of their view that human evolution is accelerating" -- The authors have a very outspoken blog https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2019/04/ - last post was 2022.
I'm wondering what the phenotypic change to vision was the happened after the advent of AMHs, especially since apparently it was the most significant. Does it mean something more general like visiou-spatial ability?
Very interesting post. The intertwinement of genetic and cultural evolution is very convincing. Given the point about inertia in large population, is it a common view that in the (relatively) recent past selection may have slowed down in large scale societies?
I think the book to turn to (for laymen) is "The 10.000 year explosion" by Greg Cochran and Henry Harpending from 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_10,000_Year_Explosion "Starting with their own take on the conventional wisdom that the evolutionary process stopped when modern humans appeared, the authors explain the genetic basis of their view that human evolution is accelerating" -- The authors have a very outspoken blog https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2019/04/ - last post was 2022.
I'm wondering what the phenotypic change to vision was the happened after the advent of AMHs, especially since apparently it was the most significant. Does it mean something more general like visiou-spatial ability?