Ridwan blogs:
Last year around this time Nobel Prize laureate, James Watson, shocked the scientific community with his ludicrous claim that race is a scientific category.
Watson, you may remember, won the Nobel Prize for his research that led (in part) to the ‘discovery’ of DNA.
So, it is October again. Now comes a report that Akhil Bakshi, a fellow of the prestigious Royal Geographic Society and celebrity photographer, is pushing the preposterous claim “that blacks, whites and Asians have different ape ancestors.”
I hate it when laymen (and yes, they are usually men) play at being scientists.
This is so stupid on the basis of known evolutionary and population genetics – wrong on many counts.
You’re not referring to both of the people in the above extract, I presume.
Anyone whose taken high school biology is aware that genetic differences between different human ethnic and national groups are far less than in almost any other species