
About 10,000 years ago, the pace of human genetic evolution rose a hundred-fold (Hawks et al., 2007). Our ancestors were no longer adapting to slowly changing physical environments. They were adapting to rapidly evolving cultural environments. What, exactly, caused this speed-up? The usual answer is the shift from hunting and gathering to farming, which in...
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