Meehan Crist

Meehan Crist’s ‘Is It OK to Have a Child?’, the second of last year's LRB Winter Lectures at the British Museum, is being expanded into a book.

Letter
Meehan Crist writes: Nicholas Wade takes issue with ‘the tattered lie that race has no basis in biology’, citing the existence of ‘genetic differences between human populations’. Here, as in his book, Wade conflates race with genetically defined human populations. No geneticist would deny that genetic variation exists across human populations as defined by geography. However, the question at...

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