A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History -Wade- Epub [Slender]

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1594206236
Publisher: The Penguin Press (May 6, 2014)
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00G3L7VFM

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story 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.