Ok, Anthropology, one day after my post on Nicholas Wade, and that post gets more hits than the last five or six posts here put together. I get it, you like Nicholas Wade, and especially complaining about him. You don’t like biological reductionism, and think that such studies are used to reinforce racist … Continue reading Nicholas Wade, Jared Diamond and Anthropology
Month: May 2014
Nicholas Wade Writes Again—And Again Anthropology Pays Attention
Nicholas Wade has a new book out, and the Anthropologists are sharpening their indignation—complaining because he treads on their private territory. Sorry, anthro, you are not medicine or law, and do not have a monopoly over who practices what you preach. Let it go. Sometimes I think that the entire discipline is beset by a … Continue reading Nicholas Wade Writes Again—And Again Anthropology Pays Attention