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The recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists' official view of the world… - Nicholas Wade
" "The recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists' official view of the world because they establish that genetics may have played a possible substantial role alongside culture in shaping the differences between human populations.
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Nicholas Wade (born May 17, 1942) is a British science reporter and nonfiction author. He was formerly a staff writer for the Science Times section of The New York Times. He has written a number of books on human evolution, including the controversial A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (2014).
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Nicholas Michael Landon Wade
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The fact that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional is not widely recognized, even though it has now been reported by many articles in the literature of genetics. The reason is in part that the knowledge is so new and in part because it raises awkward challenges to deeply held conventional wisdom.
The classification of humans into five continental based races is perfectly reasonable and is supported by genome clustering studies. In addition, classification into the three major races of African, East Asian and European is supported by the physical anthropology of human skull types and dentition.
From an evolutionary perspective, the human races are all very similar variations of the same gene pool. The question that looms over all the social sciences, unanswered and largely unaddressed, is how to explain the paradox that people as individuals are so similar yet human societies differ so conspicuously in their cultural and economic attainments.
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