How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

What followed the so-called “great leap forward” in human civilization and was that really the end of biological evolution in human beings? We’ll explore the subject this hour with Gregory Cochran, physicist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah and co-author of the new book “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic Books, 2009).