The Future of Genes and Equality: A Discussion with Kathryn Paige Harden
New Books in Anthropology
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Race Isn't a Genetic Idea?
"Race isn't a particularly meaningful category in relation to this," he says. "It's more political, it's more determined by self-identification and lots of things which are not really to do with genes." Two people from different parts of Africa who would both be categorized as black in the UK or in the US could be as genetically different from one another as the average British person,. white British person is from the average Japanese person, right? Which I think is really, I mean, and much more genetically different.
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