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Further to roundup of reviews of book defending gene-based racism (Look, we don’t believe it either, we just report):
“New analyses of the human genome have established that human evolution has been recent, copious, and regional,” he writes.
Examples of this change include lactose intolerance and the ability to live at high altitudes or cold climates.
You mean not antennae or extra limbs? Just minor, reversible stuff?
Although this part of the book has been relatively well received, his claims that there are genetic differences in terms of intelligence and behaviour, and that human history can be explained partly by genetics, have caused unease among some people.
Guess no one remembers what Europe was like a thousand years ago.
Practically everything people say against Africa today happened in Europe in a time period that these same people would call a blink of an eye. Why are they so anxious now to assume that such a time period is very significant?
Just wondering. Hope it’s not a crime yet.
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