Excerpted by Nicholas Stix
Cavalli-Sforza`s Ink Cloud
By Steve Sailer
May 24, 2000
VDARE
The New York Times has hailed Genes, Peoples, and Languages, the new book by Professor Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza the dean of population geneticists, for “dismantling the idea of race.” In the New York Review of Books, Jared Diamond salutes Cavalli-Sforza for “demolishing scientists` attempts to classify human populations into races in the same way that they classify birds and other species into races.”
Cavalli-Sforza himself has written: “The classification into races has proved to be a futile exercise.” He says his research is “expected to undermine the popular belief that there are clearly defined races, [and] to contribute to the elimination of racism.” He adds: “The idea of race in the human species serves no purpose.”
Don`t believe any of this. It`s merely a politically-correct smoke screen that Cavalli-Sforza regularly pumps out to keep his life`s work — distinguishing the races of mankind and compiling their genealogies — from being defunded by the leftist mystagogues at Stanford….
[Read the whole thing here.]
So, how does geneticist Cavalli-Sforza explain the success of The Innocence Project? http://www.innocenceproject.org
ReplyDeleteThe Project relies heavily on DNA testing to determine whether a convicted individual was convicted wrongly.
One part of the DNA testing determines the racial group to which an individual belongs.
So, Cavalli-Sforz is not only disingenuous, he's a weakling.
No his research suggests that human populations blend into other populations. He isn't being disingenuous, people are misinteroreting his data. Also that map there is really distorted, the gradients are much more visible on the real map. What it reveals is that one population flows into another genetically, therefore there is no proper place to put a racial barrier that isn't whimsical and arbitrary. The further populations are the more distinct the closer the more close. This is simple, if there is no clear barrier how do we establish a race. The term ironically makes more sense in terms of physical anthropology, though still somewhat arbitrary and not genetically supported.
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