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DefinitelyNotAGrue3 karma

Dr. Watts, I have a question which I hope you might answer.

Do you believe differences between human populations which have been breeding apart for millenia and subjected to wildly different environments have resulted in, at most, superficial differences, and people who claim otherwise ought to shut up?

On one side, I'm told race is an invalid concept because we're all basically the same because evolution has been slowing down since mid pleistocene..

On the other side, thought criminals claim genetic distance between certain human populations is larger than say between bonobo and vanilla chimps, which are of course considered different species.

Which position is closer to reality?

DefinitelyNotAGrue1 karma

Well, it's been out for.. A month and 6 days. Someone scanned the ARC and Russkie intellectuals have been offering downloads on LJ since back then at least..

There's probably a Cliff's notes of it somewhere already..