Gregory Cochran
Gregory Cochran grew up in a small town in Illinois, picked up a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Illinois, and worked for years in aerospace, mainly on advanced optics and laser systems. He later segued into evolutionary genetics and anthropology. He collaborates with Henry Harpending (University of Utah): and they put out a book in 2009 about the recent evolutionary change in humans: The 10,000 Year Explosion.
Environmental Snafus
Paranoid About AsteroidsFebruary 16, 2013 A meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk around 9:20AM local time |
Modest Proposals
Thawing out the NeanderthalsJanuary 27, 2013 If Harvard geneticist George Church gets his way, we may be seeing Neanderthals |