15. Is race science making a comeback?

1 Stefan Molyneux, tweet, 3 December 2018.

2 Nicholas Wade interviewed by Stefan Molyneux, ‘Troublesome Inheritance – Genetics and Race: Wade’, Freedomain Radio, YouTube, 1 March 2017.

3 Nicholas Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, Penguin, New York, 2014, p. 238.

4 Ibid., p. 241.

5 Ibid., p. 41.

6 Ibid., p. 136.

7 Nicholas Wade, ‘The genome of history’, Spectator, 17 May 2014.

8 Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance, op. cit., p. 235.

9 Wade, A Troublesome Inheritance, op. cit., p. 177.

10 Ibid., p. 91.

11 B. F. Voight, et al., ‘A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome’, PLOS Biology 4 (3), March 2006.

12 Ibid., p. 454.

13 Agustin Fuentes, ‘Things to Know When Talking About Race and Genetics’, Psychology Today, 13 May 2014.

14 ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’, Letters, New York Times, 8 August 2014.

15 Jerry Coyne, quoted in Steve Connor, ‘The great taboo of genetics and race – a most unnatural selection of the facts’, Independent, 13 August 2014.

16 David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 262.

17 Kevin Mitchell, Innate – How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are, Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 262.

18 Carl Jung, Collected Works 10: Civilisation in Transition, Princeton University Press, 1970, p. 45.

19 Henry Edward Garrett, quoted in Matthew Syed, Bounce, Fourth Estate, London, 2001, p. 260.

20 Mark Snyderman and Stanley Rothman, The IQ Controversy: The Media and Public Policy, Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ, 1988.

21 Marek Kohn, The Race Gallery, Jonathan Cape, London, 1995, p. 7.

22 James Gleick, Isaac Newton, Fourth Estate, London, 2003, p. 193.

23 Robert M. Yerkes, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, Penguin, London, 1997, p 223.

24 Robert M. Yerkes, quoted ibid., p. 224.

25 Charles Spearman, quoted ibid., p. 293.

26 Ibid.

27 Jordan Peterson, ‘Jordan Peterson: The Dangerous IQ Debate’, Think Club, YouTube, 15 April 2018.

28 Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, quoted in David Buss (ed.), The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, John Wiley & Sons, NJ, 2005, p. 5.

29 Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

30 See David J. Buller Adapting Minds, Bradford Books, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2006, pp. 133–4.

31 Paul Ehrlich, quoted in USA Today magazine, published by the Society for the Advancement of Education, April 2001, and argued in more depth in his book Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect, Shearwater Books/Island Press, 2000.

32 Examples include claims that women evolved to prefer pink and to like shopping more than men, and that we all evolved to favour our maternal cousins over our paternal cousins. See Gavin Evans, Mapreaders & Multitaskers: Men, Women, Nature, Nurture, Thistle, 2016, pp. 9–13 and 247–9.

33 Tattersall, op. cit., p. 171.

34 Ibid., p. 171.

35 David J. Buller, op. cit., p. 481.

36 Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 13 January 1997, http://www.cep. ucsb.edu/primer.html

37 Nicholas Wade interviewed by Stefan Molyneux, www.freedomainradio.com, YouTube, 7 December 2016.

38 Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, Penguin, 1997, pp. 22–3.

39 Ibid., p. 27.

40 Gould, op. cit., p. 32.

41 Ibid., pp. 37–8.

42 Sam Harris in ‘The Sam Harris Debate’, The Ezra Klein Show, Vox, 9 April 2018. https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-charles-murray-transcript-podcast

43 For a comprehensive picture of how Reddit works, see Adrienne Massanari, Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit, Peter Lang, 2015.

44 Nellie Bowles, ‘Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy’, New York Times, 18 May 2018.

45 ‘The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm’, Mother Jones, 7 September 2018.

46 See Adrienne Massanari, ‘#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, community, and culture support toxic technocultures’, New Media & Society, 19 (3), 9 October 2015, pp. 329–46..

47 Gavin Evans, ‘He’ll be weighing brains next’, Guardian, 14 November 2003.

48 J. Philippe Rushton, ‘Yes, “He’ll be measuring brains next”’, letter to the Guardian, published in Chris Brand, IQ & PC 1/11,2003–1/12/2003.

49 Gavin Evans, ‘Linking nationality and IQ is wrong’, Guardian, 5 July 2010.

50 Gavin Evans, ‘Race science rears its ugly head’, New Internationalist, March 2015; Gavin Evans, ‘Analysis: Black Brain, White Brain – The new wave of racist science’, Africa Check, 12 March 2015; Gavin Evans, ‘The unwelcome return of “race science”’, Guardian, 2 March 2018; Gavin Evans, ‘Die Ruckkehr einer Bullshit-Wissenschaft’, Zeit Online, Die Zeit, 31 March 2018.

51 See for example comments on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLl1dwvgps0&t=89s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VoKBuhRQho