Books Details
Author : Nicholas Wade Pages : pages Publisher : Penguin Audio Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B00K30R6R2 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
Drawing on startling new evidence from the human genome, an?exploration
of how and why the human population differentiated into?distinctive races
beginning fifty thousand years ago Fewer ideas have been more toxic or
harmful?than the idea of the biological reality of race, and?with it the
idea that humans of different races are?biologically different from one
another. For this?understandable reason, the idea has been
banished?from polite academic conversation. Arguing that?race is more
than just a social construct can get a?scholar run out of town, or at least
off campus, on?a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists,?ended
in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A?Troublesome
Inheritance, the consensus view cannot?be right. And in fact, we know
that populations?have changed in the past few thousand years?to?be
lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at?high altitudes. Race is not
a bright-line distinction;?by definition it means that the more
