Biology Quote by Nicholas Wade

“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

“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

“Eighty-five percent of human variation, according to the genetic differences in blood groups, was seen in the same racial groups. Of the remaining 15…

— Adam Rutherford

“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

“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

“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

“The starting point of Darwin 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species…

— Karl Pearson

“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

“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because they establish…

— Nicholas Wade

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for…

— Samuel Wilson

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

— J. Philippe Rushton

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

— J. Philippe Rushton