How I changed my mind about the biology of race | Philip Ball

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There’s geographically structured variation in a lot of alleles. But calling that “race” gives a false impression of the nature of that structure.

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I thought this was thought provoking:

For example, people from Asia are much more likely to be lactose-intolerant than people of European heritage. But what our brains find so hard to process is that no one is lactose-intolerant because they are Chinese. We’re not cognitively well equipped to develop the right intuitions here.

I know I’ve been trying to reorient my intuitions when it comes to genetics. I think there is a great need for it in K12 and Higher Ed scientific literacy programs.

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I’ve put Superior in my check-out-of-the-library-on-kindle reading queue.

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