{"id":522,"date":"2025-11-19T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/the-genetic-evolution-of-the-human-race-and-its-consequences-for-the-industrial-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:30:04","slug":"the-genetic-evolution-of-the-human-race-and-its-consequences-for-the-industrial-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/the-genetic-evolution-of-the-human-race-and-its-consequences-for-the-industrial-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genetic Evolution of the Human Race and Its Consequences for the Industrial Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We do not claim that the Black Death instantly made Europeans smarter. Instead, we suggest that the post-plague economy may have amplified long-running selection on traits linked to educational attainment: learning ability, self-control, and long-term planning. In that sense, the Black Death looks less like a one-off catastrophe and more like a hinge in the evolutionary history of the populations that would later launch the Industrial Revolution.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/davidepiffer.com\/p\/the-genetic-evolution-of-the-human?hide_intro_popup=true\">davidepiffer.com\/p\/the-genetic-evolution-of-the-human<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We do not claim that the Black Death instantly made Europeans smarter. Instead, we suggest that the post-plague economy may have amplified long-running selection on traits linked to educational attainment: learning ability, self-control, and long-term planning. In that sense, the Black Death looks less like a one-off catastrophe and more like a hinge in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,7,39,40],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-consciousness","tag-evolution","tag-the-industrial-revolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}