Wade’s main response has been that the commentators lack the stature and expertise to criticize his ideas. The book has been widely reviewed and, apart from a glowing endorsement from conservative policy writer Charles Murray, has received largely negative assessments. His book purported to summarize the main findings of the research he had been covering: that the European, African, and Asian races are genetically defined and that they have faced different evolutionary pressures that have given them what he claimed are different intellectual, behavioral, and civilizational capacities. Wade was for many years the main science reporter for the New York Times covering developments in genetics and biology. Written by a group of five leading evolutionary geneticists and signed by another 135, it repudiated the main conclusions of Nicolas Wade’s book A Troublesome Inheritance. On August 8, a remarkable letter appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
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