“Almost every element usually regarded by historians as a major contributory cause to the industrial revolution in north-western Europe was also present… — Nicholas Wade History Copy Share Image
“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to… — Nicholas Wade Around the world Copy Share Image
“The essence of the tribal lineage was the descent of property through the male line. But producing a male heir under medieval… — Nicholas Wade Death Copy Share Image
“showed a group of two- and three-year-olds a new game. A puppet then appeared and performed the game incorrectly. Almost all the… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Our bones are more gracile than those of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors, our personalities less aggressive, our societies more trusting and cohesive.… — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“aggressivity common in hunter-gatherer groups. The human fossil record shows that in the period prior to settlement, there had been a gradual… — Nicholas Wade Wild animal Copy Share Image
“Australian aborigines, surprisingly, turn out to be a race unlike any other. They and their relatives in New Guinea have no trace… — Nicholas Wade Years ago Copy Share Image
“Human children, on the other hand, are inherently cooperative. From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and… — Nicholas Wade Children Copy Share Image
“Politically oriented scientists often proclaim that there are no distinct human races, seeking to imply, without actually saying so, that races do… — Nicholas Wade Racism Copy Share Image
“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed… — Nicholas Wade Social darwinism Copy Share Image
“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they… — Nicholas Wade Human evolution Copy Share Image
“Genes do not determine human behavior; they merely predispose people to act in certain ways. Genes explain a lot, probably far more… — Nicholas Wade Habits Copy Share Image
“The central premise of racism, which distinguishes it from ethnic prejudice, is the notion of an ordered hierarchy of races in which… — Nicholas Wade Racism Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes, can be summarized in a single sentence: “History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments,… — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“The genetic differences between human races turn out to be based largely in allele frequencies,” — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“The genes supply the motivation for warfare, [E. O.] Wilson is saying, in humans as they do in chimps, but people, blessed… — Nicholas Wade Evolutionary biology Copy Share Image
“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.” — Nicholas Wade Human evolution Copy Share Image
“Though there is still a large random element, the broad general theme of human history is that each race has developed the… — Nicholas Wade History Copy Share Image
“among Ashkenazim, if the average IQ is taken as 110, then 23 Ashkenazim per 1,000 should exceed 140, the Utah team calculates,… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Almost all Dutch and Swedish people today are lactose tolerant, meaning they carry the mutation that keeps the lactase gene permanently switched… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The independent but parallel evolution of pale skin in the two halves of the Eurasian continent came about because each was exposed… — Nicholas Wade Pale skin Copy Share Image
“Almost all Europeans and all Africans have the wet earwax allele of the ABCC11 gene. This sharp differentiation of the two alleles… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“The lactase-prolonging mutations conferred an enormous advantage on their owners, letting them leave ten times more surviving children than those without the… — Nicholas Wade Children Copy Share Image
“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary… — Nicholas Wade Human evolution Copy Share Image
“The first migration out of Africa, the one that gave rise to both Europeans and East Asians, eventually reached Sahul, the ancient… — Nicholas Wade Ice age Copy Share Image
