Jennifer Raff, Charles C. Roseman and Laura R. Stein, which were published together in the scientific journal Human Biology. Marks, for instance, described the book as "entirely derivative, an argument made from selective citations, misrepresentations, and speculative pseudoscience." The publishers made all the reviews accessible on open access in order to facilitate discussions on the subject. Anthropologist Greg Laden writes that anthropologists were mostly critical of the book, while psychologists and economists generally received it more warmly. Laden concluded that "'A Troublesome Inheritance'' is itself troubling, not for its politics but for its science. Its arguments are only mildly amended versions of arguments discarded decades ago by those who methodically and systematically study human behavioral variation across cultures." Anthropologist Henry Harpending writes, "For historians, Wade's book is valuable for insight into the role of traditions and occasional tensions in the history of science." Evolutionary biologist H. Allen Orr wrote in The New York Review of Books that "Wade's survey of human population genomics is lively and generally serviceable. It is not, however, without error. He exaggerates, for example, the percentage of the human genome that shows evidence of recent natural selection." Orr comments that, in its second part, "the book resembles a heavily biological version of Francis Fukuyama's claims about the effect of social institutions on the fates of states in his The Origins of Political Order (2011)." Orr criticizes Wade for failing to provide sufficient evidence for his claims, though according to Orr, Wade concedes that evidence for his thesis is "nearly nonexistent." Orr further comments: Political scientist Charles Murray wrote a positive review in The Wall Street Journal, calling the book "historic" and stating that opposition to the book among academics would be motivated by "political correctness". Economist Walter E. Block criticized parts of the book, but concluded Wade's "moral and intellectual courage cannot be denied." Statistician Andrew Gelman wrote, "As a statistician and political scientist, I see naivete in Wade's quickness to assume a genetic association for any change in social behavior." See also Superior: The Return of Race Science The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution References 2014 non-fiction books Books about evolution Books about human intelligence Books about race and ethnicity Books about wealth distribution Books by Nicholas Wade English-language books Penguin Books books Race and intelligence controversy