30-year New York Times Science Writer Out After Writing Book About Genetics, Race

Daily Caller ^ | 5/10/2014 | Chris Reed

[mojito]

Nicholas Wade, a British-born science reporter and editor for more than 30 years with The New York Times, is no longer with the newspaper — just days after the release of his latest book, in which he depicts blacks with roots in sub-Saharan Africa as genetically less adapted to modern life than whites and Asians.

Was The New York Times uncomfortable with Wade’s science or his conclusions? It’s unclear. Neither Wade nor his former employer returned requests for comment.

Wade’s last Times article appeared April 24. His Penguin Press book “A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History” arrived in bookstores on Tuesday, May 6. In excerpts from his book posted by Time.com on Friday, he is identified as a “former science editor” of the Times. Until then, coverage of his book called him a current Times journalist.

Wade’s main thesis is that “human evolution has been recent, copious and regional.” He writes, “Though there is still a large random element, the broad general theme of human history is that each race has developed the institutions appropriate to secure survival in its particular environment.”

[BroJoeK]

Pigs & humans are not 98% the same genetically, by any measure.
But it's true that such numbers largely depend on exactly what & how you measure.
By carefully selecting your criteria, you might get pigs up into the 80+% range.

As for future genetic engineering, that is of course a whole another kettle of fish.

[BroJoeK]

A google search turns up the following report on percent of identical DNA between humans and various others:

1. 99.9% the same amongst all humans = 3 million base pair differences out of 3 billion total.

2. 99.8% the same between modern humans and Neanderthals.

3. 94% the same between humans and chimpanzees.

4. 90% the same with cats.

5. 80% the same with cows & pigs.

6. 75% equivalents with mice.

7. 60% correspondence with chickens and, curiously, also with fruit flies.

[gleeaikin]

Thanks for this link giving further information about the existance of the gene which seems to give some protection against AIDs, and may have survived due to also conferring resistance to the Black Death and/or Smallpox.

[SunkenCiv]

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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History by Nicholas Wade Paperback Kindle Edition CD Audiobook Unabridged Audible Audio Edition

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[SunkenCiv]

The Neandertal Enigma
by James Shreeve
in local libraries

"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]

[SunkenCiv]

Book Review: ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ by Nicholas Wade
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 050214 | Charles Murray
Posted on 5/3/2014, 4:51:51 PM by globelamp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3151790/posts