Heterodox
Chapter 7 of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (2009) is called “Medieval Evolution: How the Ashkenazi Jews got their Smarts,” and looks at the evolution of the Ashkenazi minority within Europe over the past 1,500 years.The chapter is based in part on earlier work in Cochran, Hardy and Harpending (2006). The Ashkenazim were a Diaspora Jewish community that was first based in northern France and Germany in the...
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