Tag: Nicholas Wade

  • I have deep sympathy for the concern that genetic discoveries could be misused to justify racism. But as a geneticist I also know that it is simply no longer possible to ignore average genetic differences among “races.”

  • In a new book, University of North Carolina, Charlotte anthropologist Jonathan Marks says that racism in science is alive and well.

  • SCIENTIFIC RACISM REDUX? The Many Lives of a Troublesome Idea Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2015 pages 187-199 DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X1500003X Ann Morning, Associate Professor of Sociology New York University Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. New York: Penguin Press, 2014, 278 pages, ISBN…

  • Pharmacogenomics and the Biology of Race Myles Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science New York University The Huffington Post 2015-01-05 The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade’s recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again reminded us of the complexity, ambiguity and perils of writing…

  • Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know

  • 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western…

  • Genome Study Points to Adaptation in Early African-Americans The New York Times 2012-01-02 Nicholas Wade, Science Reporter Researchers scanning the genomes of African-Americans say they see evidence of natural selection as their ancestors adapted to the harsh conditions of their new environment in America. The scientists, led by Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of…