麻烦的遗传
A troublesome inheritance
Nicholas Wade · 初版 2014 年
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借鉴基因组图谱绘制带来的惊人新证据，本书对种族的遗传学基础及其在人类历史中的作用进行了极具震撼性的全新阐述。几乎没有什么观念能比某个种族天生优于其他种族更具危害性了。出于这种可以理解的原因，关于种族间生物学差异的讨论几乎被逐出了严谨礼貌的学术探讨领域。共识观点坚称，人类的演化在史前时代就已告终。然而令人尴尬的是，这种观点不可能是正确的。知名科学记者 Nicholas Wade 长期报道基因领域的最新进展，他
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Nicholas Wade 写的《A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History》。争议很大，但极其引人入胜。
"A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" by Nicholas Wade. Controversial but fascinating.
……在《钟形曲线》（The Bell Curve）中被引用并套用到非洲人身上。《钟形曲线》就是一本套着体面外衣的 Storefront 传单（可悲的是，每隔20年就会冒出一个后继者，最近的一本就是 Nicholas Wade 的《A Troublesome Inheritance》）。引发争议的数据声称黑人非洲人的平均智商为 75。如果你去查查引文，它出自臭名昭著的种族主义者 Richard Lynn 引用的一项研究（可以 Google 搜一下‘Mankind Quarterly’）……
…cited in “The Bell Curve” as applies to Africans. The “Bell Curve” was a Storefront tract dressed in respectable clothing (sadly, every 20 years it has a successor, the most recent is Nicholas Wade’s “A troublesome Inheritance". The statistic in question was quoted as an average IQ of 75 for Black Africans. If you read the citations, it comes from a study quoted by Richard Lynn (infamous racist, google ‘Mankind Quaterly’).…
……Gregory Cochran 和 Henry Harpending 写的平装书《The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution》。前《纽约时报》资深撰稿人 Nicholas Wade 在他的书《A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History》中也提出了相同的论点，不过我还没读过。
…Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution Paperback by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. Nicholas Wade, a long time writer for the New York Times also made the same arguments in his book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History although I haven't read it.
不是老鼠而是人类，非常有意思：https://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-H...
Not rats but humans, very interesting : https://www.amazon.com/Troublesome-Inheritance-Genes-Human-H...
……文章作者：> Nicholas Wade 曾于 1990 至 1996 年担任《纽约时报》科学版编辑，也是三本关于近代人类演化书籍的作者：《Before the Dawn》、《The Faith Instinct》以及《A Troublesome Inheritance》。
…the author of the article: > Nicholas Wade was science editor of the New York Times from 1990 to 1996 and is author of three books on recent human evolution: Before the Dawn, The Faith Instinct, and A Troublesome Inheritance.
一些科普读物：《A Troublesome Inheritance》https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G3L7VFM/ref=kinw_myk_ro... 《A Farewell to Alms》https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EQ4OLA/ref=kinw_myk_ro... 《Human Diversity》https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y8K5FX8/ref=kinw_myk_ro...…
Some popularisations: "A Troublesome Inheritance" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G3L7VFM/ref=kinw_myk_ro... "A Farewell to Alms" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EQ4OLA/ref=kinw_myk_ro... "Human Diversity" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y8K5FX8/ref=kinw_myk_ro...…