Када се креће са потенцирањем тих разлика, то углавном води у расизам, а упућује на неку врсту комплекса, суперматизма (код овога што на тим разликама инсистира).
Како ствари стоје, изгледа да је данас само констатација да разлике постоје, довољна да се неког оптужи за расизам. На ту врсту потпуно идеолошке реакције сам мислио.
Још један од генетичара који се не либи да отвара ове теме је Gregory Cochran, познат је његов рад о генетски условљеној већој интелигенцији ашкенаских Јевреја. Није да није био нападан, али ради се о научном раду па се његови закључци могу побијати само научном методологијом, а не паушалним оцјенама.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130911054719/http://harpending.humanevo.utah.edu/Documents/ashkiq.webpub.pdfЗанимљив је приказ његовог каснијег рада
Why Genes Still Matter који веома добро сажима суштину проблема о којој сам писао јуче:
A review of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Basic Books: New York, 2009
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, by Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, is an unapologetic analysis of some relatively recent trends in human biology. The authors, one a physicist, the other an anthropologist, are intrepid in laying out their hypotheses,
no matter how politically incorrect or controversial they may be. Although many of their arguments need more fleshing out and some may not withstand the assault of further scientific analysis, the authors are stunningly creative when considering human history. If even a handful of their arguments survive the onslaught of rigorous scientific scrutiny, Cochran and Harpending will have offered a valuable and novel approach to addressing questions of recent human evolution.
Many scholars, especially in the human social sciences, avoid addressing difficult and uncomfortable aspects of their disciplines. There seems to be a systemic ignorance of the implications that the biological sciences offer to our understanding of ourselves, whether intentional or not.
This is most apparent in discussions of individual differences and group differences in traits such as intelligence and aggression, topics that are openly discussed in The 10,000 Year Explosion.
Ironically, in their attempts to avoid racial or ethnic bias, researchers may inadvertently engage in scientific bias. This scientific bias is apparent whenever differences between individuals and groups are claimed to result solely from differences in culture, with little or no regard for genetics.
An example of this, discussed by Cochran and Harpending, is the denial of the scientific evidence for the heritability of intelligence and the claim that the higher-than-average intelligence of groups such as the Ashkenazi Jews is explained entirely by differences in rearing practices. Therefore, despite the controversy that this book may arouse, it is an important vanguard in furthering the study of “genetic history” (p. x), and its relationship to cultural history.