Nicholas Wade

I had no interest in the politics of race and didn't touch it.

Um, and all this was, um, you know, my job at the time was to, uh, cover the human genome.

So this was one of the first, these were one of the first results that came flowing out of the human genome, how, you know, the different, um, the different variations on the genome that have occurred throughout, um, history.

So that's,

when I started writing it up, also because I found that academics were petrified of discussing these fascinating results.

There's a great taboo in talking about race.

Well, here we were generating all this information.

You shouldn't someone report to the public what it says.

So that was the only motivation of my book.

As I viewed it, it was just a straightforward science book saying, this is what we know.

However, it's remained unique in the field because no one has since dared write about it.

There's a complete taboo on saying anything about race.

And the reason it annoyed people was that it went to the heart of the left's position

which is that there is no biological basis to race or indeed to sex.

Both race and sex are cultural concepts, not biological in the view of the left.

So this is a profoundly evolutionary, utterly nutty position.

But my book was a direct challenge to it because, well, here is the biological basis of race.

And down to the nearest nucleotide, this is why Chinese are different from Europeans.

That's certainly a real danger.

But what do you do about it?