Human evolution Quote by Nicholas Wade

“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary past. These…

— Nicholas Wade

“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to the contrary…

— Nicholas Wade

“If you believe in natural selection, you are a racist.”

— John Joy

“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago, when he…

— Bryan Sykes

“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. Its…

— Nicholas Wade

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“One of the more obvious differences between modern humans is skin color. We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average…

— Adam Rutherford

“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are too untidy,…

— Adam Rutherford

You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you…

— Jim Goad

“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the…

— American Anthropological Association

“I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason…

— Franz Boas

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people…

— J. Philippe Rushton