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 KC And The Sunshine Band Present Get Down Tonight - The Disco Explosion Live $14.98 What a video of live performances from the original artists during the disco era. The best video out there if you are a hardcore original artists fan. A must have! You just can't go wrong.  Crayola 74-1623 Crayola Color Explosion Markers, Twisted Tropicals, Box of 72 $35.66 Color Explosion˘ď paper looks ordinary until stunning colors magically appear. White broad-line markers unleash swirling color in the paper. Black fine line marker and stencil sheet included. Recommended for ages 6 and up.  Population Explosion Map Business Card Wallet $9.99 This vintage 50's map of world population by country makes this design a great choice for travel lovers. Very practical and handy. Let this slim case hold your business cards, credit cards, and ID's. Measures 2.75" x 4" when closed, with two clear pockets inside. Handmade in Los Angeles.  The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution $27.00 We continue to be simply a work in progress. Is not what you've always heard, is is? That the major ongoing changes are cultural, not genetic. But the premise is that the rise of agriculture as far back as nearly 10,000 years ago selected agriculturists (us, their descendants) with certain qualities best adapted to that life. To its diseases, its wars, its politics, its carbohydrates, its property rights, its poorer nutrition (Yes!), its technologies, its anti-egalitarianism, its suppression of women's power, its schools, its markets, its trading, its money, its explorations. All these things were agencies of selection for the genes present in the human gene pool since hunter/gatherer times which would best adapt the human species exposed to agriculture. And we did adapt. We don't challenge authority much; instead we cower, cringe, obey. Until relatively recently in modern history we were much shorter than prehistoric modern humans. We developed genetic adaptations to numerous diseases the etiology of which was urban crowding. Those who, of necessity, were restricted to "mind work" occupations such as money lending prospered, had more children survive, and passed on the higher mental abilities required for that work. This is a theory about how the Ashkenazy Jews ended up having not an average IQ of 100, but rather up around 114, with the consequence that as a result of the bell shaped curve of the range of IQ in a population they had a higher percentage of really bright people (they far outshine other populations in that respect). Our western European adaptation to disease was the proximate cause of terrible epidemics in the native populations of the Americas when Pilgrims and Conquistadors arrived in the New World. Additionally, the hunter/gatherer peoples of the New World had genetic baggage useful to them in their way of life but not optimally adapted to the European lifestyle. Some refused to be slaves (the way we are). They refused to breed more slaves or work in mines, and even killed themselves. They shared; we don't. They were hierarchy deficient; we are hierarchy rich. The 10,000 Year Explosion is readable. It has a plausible thesis. It will explain to you more about why we are the way we are. That devil, agriculture-driven civilization, made us do it - explore the world and even leap into space. We are the domesticated version of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. |
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