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Allen Orr, my first Ph.D. student, has developed a thriving career as a popular book reviewer, and in this week’s New York Review of Books, he critique’s Nicholas Wade’s new book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History.
I made a few comments on this book a few days ago, saying that it was in the main pretty bad, though one part, the presentation of the case for genetic differentiation of human populations, was not too bad. But Wade’s main thesis was that differences between human societies, as well as rapid changes within human societies, was due to evolutionary change mediated by natural selection. That latter contention, I claimed, had no evidence behind it, though Wade argued otherwise. I did not, and do not, recommend that you read the book
What’s really interesting is the comments.
See, the problem is that these people need to be pro-Darwin and anti-racism.
Darwin only had to be pro-Darwin.
It’s an interesting dance but the steps are pretty complex.
Note: The controersy has taken a weird turn because it turns out we are liberal creationists and everybody is a creationist now anyway. We thought we owned the sucker, but that just shows ya.