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SPOT ON WILLIAM? I love that show Finding Your Roots, and its continuing demonstration that racial purity is a myth. While at Stanford, I met a medical scholar who traced ancient blood markers to folks living today. He concluded that controlling for environmental variations there is really only one race, the human race. Not to mention that most of the current global population has roots in Africa.

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Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.
Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Written by Greg Daneke, Emeritus Prof.

Top Economics Writer, Gov. service, corp consulting, & faculty posts (e.g., Mich., Stanford, British Columbia). Piles of scholarly pubs & occasional diatribes.

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