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My review of Nicholas Wade, Michael Yudell, and Robert Sussman leads off Nature<\/a>‘s Fall Books number<\/a>\u00a0and is featured in the Nature\/SciAm Diversity special<\/a>. And it’s free–no paywall!<\/p>\n

This is the piece I was writing when the brick hit my deck, inspiring this earlier post<\/a>, which is now a finalist<\/a> for the 3QuarksDaily<\/a> science blog prize. For a more detailed and absolutely deadpan\u00a0look at Wade, see Dick Dorkins’s review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My review of Nicholas Wade, Michael Yudell, and Robert Sussman leads off Nature‘s Fall Books number\u00a0and is featured in the Nature\/SciAm Diversity special. And it’s free–no paywall! This is the piece I was writing when the brick hit my deck, inspiring this earlier post, which is now a finalist for the 3QuarksDaily science blog prize. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,315,32,38,43,333,83,386],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-calling-bullshit","tag-eugenics","tag-genetic-determinism","tag-genetics","tag-new-eugenics","tag-race","tag-shameless-promotion"],"yoast_head":"\nRace and Genetics in Nature - Genotopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/genotopia\/462\/race-and-genetics-in-nature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Race and Genetics in Nature\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My review of Nicholas Wade, Michael Yudell, and Robert Sussman leads off Nature‘s Fall Books number\u00a0and is featured in the Nature\/SciAm Diversity special. 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