Race and Biology
| August 18th, 2008 | Crossposted from The Blog and the BulletRidwan blogs:
Last year around this time Nobel Prize laureate, James Watson, shocked the scientific community with his ludicrous claim that race is a scientific category.
Watson, you may remember, won the Nobel Prize for his research that led (in part) to the ‘discovery’ of DNA.
So, it is October again. Now comes a report that Akhil Bakshi, a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society and celebrity photographer, is pushing the preposterous claim “that blacks, whites and Asians have different ape ancestors.”
August 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
I hate it when laymen (and yes, they are usually men) play at being scientists.
This is so stupid on the basis of known evolutionary and population genetics - wrong on many counts.
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August 19th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
You’re not referring to both of the people in the above extract, I presume.
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August 19th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Anyone whose taken high school biology is aware that genetic differences between different human ethnic and national groups are far less than in almost any other species
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