Title: Very enlightening book
Review: Some of the other reviewers seem to be missing the central point of this excellent book, which, after all, was nominated for the National Book Award in 2002. The author repeatedly points out that human beings are definitely not the same genetically -- otherwise it wouldn't be possible to write a book like this at all. DNA sequences obviously differ from person to person and group to group, and these differences are a reflection of our individual and collective histories.The much more interesting question is whether, given the history of our species, one would expect groups to differ genetically in anything other than superficial ways. No evidence for such differences exists, nor is such evidence likely ever to exist given the profound influence of familial and social environments on human traits. That's the real message emerging from modern genetics research. Racism based on the idea that groups have significant biological differences is dead.
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