[Pharmboy]

Leroi has guts. An interesting and dispassionate discussion of the data.

[Pharmboy]

Ping

[satchmodog9]

Killing facts.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Bird Jenkins]

I'll be a son of a gun. Sea Gypsies.

[Cenobite]

Leroi shall be burned as a heretic by the Harvard, excuse me, the Spanish Inquistion.

[Billthedrill]

The short answer is that "race" as a taxonomic classification predates the linkage between genotype and phenotype that even now is incompletely understood; hence there's a whole lot of intellectual garbage that is going to have to be culled from the field before it again becomes respectable.

It can be done - chemistry was eventually extracted from and divorced from alchemy, astronomy from astrology. But what to keep, and what to discard will be a decision process that will be hampered constantly by vestiges of racism and accusations of its further promotion. I wish the fellow luck.

[Coyoteman]

Good post.

The early efforts to analyze crania met with little success as the computing power to crunch the numbers did not yet exist.

In more recent times, the computing power is there, but the study of modern cranial morphology has largely been passed over in favor of non-metric traits and, more recently, DNA, etc.

Still, I think there are still a few good studies left to do on metric cranial morphology.

[King Prout]

a minor sidebar:

... for that is the location of the gene encoding Sonic Hedgehog...

ya gotta be kiddin' me

[Prime Choice]

And the moral of the story: science always loses whenever politicians start dictating what its findings should be. This is even worse when introducing "political correctness" into the mix.

[Redcloak]

Race is really more about aesthetics than anything else. You look the way you do because your ancestors found that look attractive. Studying race says more about what made Greatⁿ-grandpa hot-to-trot than it says anything about you.

[aculeus]

Leroi has guts.

Indeed ... and brains.

Some Leroi facts:

He's a Brit resident, born in NZ of Dutch parents (his father was a diplomat).

Now holds the position previously held by "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Huxley.

His book Mutants awarded The Guardian's Book of the Year reward in 2004 (2003?).

His most important (wink) paper found here

http://armandleroi.com/images/pdf2.gif

... that paper discussed here ...

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=16

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[Dustbunny]

Interesting !!!

[ValerieUSA]

Why not check the variation in skull shapes within families first?

[Question_Assumptions]

The reason why they don't study it is that too many biologists of the 19th century, filled with Darwinist zeal, tried to use phenology to arrange human races into an evolutionary model of more and less advanced humans on an evolutionary scale, going so far as to look at Tasmanians as a "missing link". The same thing happened with the study of general intelligence or IQ. Basically, both areas of study were used toward (generally unwarranted) racist and have thus cast a racist shadow over the whole enterprise. People feel that even talking about such issues seriously is to step upon a slippery slope that ends no place good.

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