What is Race?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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I Belong to the Conquering Power, That's Right?
nationalism only makes sense in the light of football, he says. The whole eugenic movement emerged out of a national conversation about how we could improve the british stock. francis golton ha invented the study of humans in terms of measuring these sorts of differences. But i think the beauty of of genetics, of the science of gen tics, is that the field that he invented ended up proving his motivation for demonstrating the superiority of races was absolutely wrong.
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