A New History of Ireland, Volume III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691, ed. T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne
Newman, Elgar and "The Dream of Gerontius", by Percy M. Young
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Fiction (Non-sf) 3 (YTD 41)
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Exit Music, by Ian Rankin
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
SF (non-Who) 9 (YTD 66)
Half A Crown, by Jo Walton
The Borribles, by Michael De Larrabeiti
The Borribles Go For Broke, by Michael De Larrabeiti
The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis, by Michael De Larrabeiti
Other Edens, ed. Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
White Queen, by Gwyneth Jones
Other Edens 2, ed. Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
Falling Free, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Other Edens III, ed. Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock
Doctor Who etc 8 (YTD 67)
The Twilight Streets, by Gary Russell
The Good, the Bad and the Alien, by Colin Brake
System Wipe, by Oli Smith
The Devil Goblins From Neptune, by Martin Day and Keith Topping
Legacy, by Gary Russell
The Wonderful Book of Doctor Who 1965, by Paul Smith
Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood, by David Fisher
Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood, by Terrance Dicks
Comics 1 (YTD 22)
Fables: Rose Red, by Bill Willingham
~7,000 pages (YTD ~73,500)
3/24 (YTD 55/251) by women (Walton, Jones, Bujold)
1/24 (YTD 13/251) by PoC (Equiano)
Owned for more than a year: 17 (The Grapes of Wrath [reread], Other Edens, Other Edens 2, Other Edens III [reread], Falling Free [reread], Newman, Elgar and "Gerontius", The Borribles [reread], The Borribles Go for Broke [reread], The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis [reread], Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood [reread], Legacy, Exit Music, White Queen, Half a Crown, Sons and Lovers, A New History of Ireland Volume III, The Devil Goblins from Neptune)
Other rereads: none, for a total of 7 (YTD 32/251)
Programmed reads: 17 from 13 lists
d) Sons and Lovers (non-genre books by entry order)
g) Other Edens, Other Edens 2 (sf anthologies in order of entry)
h) White Queen (sf non-anthologies in order of entry)
k) Falling Free (Nebula winners in sequence)
l) Legacy (New Adventures in sequence)
n) The Good, the Bad and the Alien, System Wipe (New Who books)
o) The Devil Goblins from Neptune (other Old Who by popularity)
q) Exit Music (Rankin's Rebus novels, in order)
r) A New History of Ireland Volume III (Tudors and Ireland)
s) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (books by PoC)
t) Newman, Elgar and "The Dream of Gerontius" (books on the shelves at end 2005, otherwise not accounted for, going backwards in LT entry order)
u) The Borribles, The Borribles Go For Broke, The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis (unreviewed books acquired from 2006 on in entry order)
v) The Grapes of Wrath (books I have already read but haven't reviewed on-line, ranked by LT popularity)
Coming next, possibly:
Doctor Who: Autumn Mist by David A. McIntee (already started)
Diana Wynne Jones by Farah Mendlesohn (already started)
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Private Eye Annual 2008 by Ian Hislop
Race of a Lifetime by Mark Halperin
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
Doctor Who: Nuclear Time by Oli Smith
The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland by Christopher Haigh
Treason of Isengard by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts
Gulistān and Būstān by Sheikh Muṣleḥ-ʾiddin Saʿdī
Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994 by Ciaran Brady
History of Christianity ed. Tim Dowley and Pat Alexander
One Planet: A Celebration of Biodiversity by Nicholas Hulot
Beggars Banquet by Ian Rankin
Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
Theatre of War by Justin Richards
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Year's Best Science Fiction 24 ed. Gardner Dozois
Inevitably it’s more complicated even than that, of course. Agriculture took a fair time to propagate, so the neolithic in Scotland (for example) begins only a few thousand years ago, compared to more than 10,000 years ago in the Levant. And of course many of the organisms we currently eat were created by us through selective breeding – wheat for example – so have been co-evolving throughout that time. There’s also the question of how helpful a particular adaptation might be – for example being able to digest lactose after weaning is arguably of great utility in colder northern latitudes, but likely more marginal further south.
So what we would expect is an enormous amount of variance both between and within populations.