Troublesome Inheritance Genes, Race and Human History

Name: Troublesome Inheritance Genes, Race and Human History
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ISBN: 9781594204463

ISBN-10: 1594204462

ISBN-13: 9781594204463

Edition: 2014

Authors: Nicholas Wade

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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 agoFewer 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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Born in Aylesbury, England, Nicholas Wade studies at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He has worked at nature and Science and is currently a science reporter for The New York Times. The author of four previous books, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.