I wrote Luca Cavalli-Sforza and told him about the list. I asked for
his opinion and this is the email response he sent me. Luca
Cavalli-Sforza is the head of the Human Biodiversity Project which has
collect the best genetic evidence to date that shows there are no
races....the genetic differences are not statiistically significant!!!!
Thom
>Dear Mr.Quinn,
>Unfortunately I have no time to follow the many Internet
>sites and I am travelling abroad, which would make it especially difficult.
>Unfortunately there are a few "scientists" and politicians of the extreme
>left or the extreme right who specialise in quoting out of context for
>supporting their ideas or slandering others, on the very difficult subject
>of race, ad I have been a frequent target to some of these fellows.
>I appreciate your request to ask me my opinion on race. I have given it
>clearly in two recent books published in English, and I hope you will take
>the time to look at one of them. I believe they are both easy to read. One
>is "The Great Human Diasporas - a history of Human Diversity" published in
>1996 by Addison Wesley- chapter 9 discusses the problem of races and racism
>at some length, and the postscript answers "the Bell Curve". The other is
>"History and Geography of Human Genes" published by Princeton Univ. Press
>in 1994 and also in paperback in 1996 - especially at pages 16-22. I would
>find it difficult to add more.
> I hope this is useful
> Sincerely
> Luca Cavalli-Sforza