Are Human Beings Alike Or Different? The Evidence Is In, But It’s Hard To Talk About By Steve Sailer
The human sciences are in a paradoxical situation. Vast quantities of new data are pouring in, particularly from the exponential improvements in genome sequencing. Yet theorizing about what the new data imply has seldom been more career-threatening—as the fates of James Watson and Larry Summers show.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the May 10, scientific conference on "Evolution, Culture, and Human Behavior" at UC Irvine, which brought together leading theorists for a day of presentations centered around the debate over human uniformity vs. human biodiversity, flew under the radar. It needed only a single normal-sized classroom.
Still, the few dozen spectators included an honor roll of prominent figures in the human sciences.
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