“New analyses of the human genome establish that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.” — Nicholas Wade Human evolution Copy Share Image
“The genetic differences between human races turn out to be based largely in allele frequencies,” — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.” — Nicholas Wade Economist Copy Share Image
“By 1500 there were 1,700 printing presses distributed in 300 European cities in every country except Russia.16” — 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 Lactose 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
“When the glaciers retreated, starting around 20,000 years ago, both Europe and East Asia were repopulated by former northerners who had survived… — 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 Copy Share Image
“others are still in the throes of the process. The Meso-Industrial Age, as it might be called, is the period during which… — Nicholas Wade Habits Copy Share Image
“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what… — Nicholas Wade Natural selection 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 Continent 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
“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
“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 English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law… — Nicholas Wade Economic growth Copy Share Image
“Using a 500,000 snip chip, researchers at Stanford University have found a strong correspondence between the genetics and geographical origins of Europeans.… — Nicholas Wade Europeans Copy Share Image
“Another possibility is that the sweat glands were the driving force behind the rise of EDAR-V370A. East Asians are usually assumed to… — Nicholas Wade Body heat Copy Share Image
“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed… — Nicholas Wade Autocracy Copy Share Image
“It is a few selected genes, not the many neutral ones, that may account for the differences between continental races. Substantial evidence… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“it is easy to recognize an evolutionary process at work that has molded the human form for better survival in an arctic… — Nicholas Wade Adaptation Copy Share Image
“Several primate species have communication systems of considerable sophistication. Gelada baboons have 22 different kinds of call, and gorillas have been recorded… — Nicholas Wade Animal 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
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade Children Copy Share Image
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Books Copy Share Image
“This precocious advance may have had a lot to do with the nature of the plain between the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.… — Nicholas Wade Nature Copy Share Image
“The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled… — Nicholas Wade King and queen Copy Share Image
“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because… — Nicholas Wade Biology 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 Intellectual Copy Share Image
“Several social behaviors that economists have identified as obstacles to progress are ones that could well have a genetic basis. One is… — Nicholas Wade Economics 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
“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
“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to… — Nicholas Wade Racism Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included… — Nicholas Wade Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Anthropologists call tribes segmentary societies because of the way in which the different lineages or segments can be fitted together for particular… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Americans may already have begun adapting genetically to the American environment in the several generations since their ancestors arrived in the United… — Nicholas Wade Natural selection 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
