WHAT are we to make of the race debate? One side denies that the concept of race makes scientific sense. The other declares it a legitimate scientific category, grounded in genetics and geography. – a prominent author and senior visiting fellow at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK – thinks the arguments on both sides are wrong.
Take, for instance, this one: “The human race is too young for it to have evolved into distinct species-like units.” No, it isn’t, and Malik provides good, if not overwhelming, reasons why not. Or this one: “Distinctions between races are arbitrary.” No, they aren’t. In a famous experiment in 2002, a computer program was…
