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Title: What about the rest of the world?
Review: If race is a hoax, it has taken in all people of every recorded epoch, from Herodotus down to ourselves. It is not simply America, nor is it recent. A focus on our society in our century is far too myopic.Graves has drawn on good sources. He has drawn somewhat different conclusions than writers whom he cites, such as Cavalli-Sforza. His book would be better if the bibliography were better ordered. Along with Cavalli-Sforza he might have mentioned Spencer Wells' "The Journey of man."The book is flawed by a number of non sequiturs. Graves develops towards a point in a logical sequence of ironclad and well supported steps, then ventures one step beyond into thin air with no support whatsoever. Often it involves jumps among realms, as from genetics to politics to sociology to history.
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