农业兴起与文化变迁加速人类进化

Sweeping study finds rapid genetic change in past 10,000 years ANDREW CURRY A fter modern humans made it to Europe some 50,000 years ago, they hunted and gathered in small groups for scores of generations. Then, 10,000 years ago, people in Europe began to farm and settle down. About 5000 years later, cattle herders from the steppes of Eurasia surged into Europe with the wheel and metal tools and weapons, ending the Stone Age and ushering in the Bronze. Cultural and technological changes kept accelerating, from the rise of the first cities to the spread of empires to our modern age of trains, planes, cellphones, and artificial intelligence. …