It again looks at the way in which ideological and political ideas co-opt science, or a half-baked understanding of it. We might have some half-baked ideas about how evolution works - and have unthinkingly accepted racial categories invented by 18th-century imperialists - but, he assured us in perhaps the standout line of the book, the underlying genetics is ‘wickedly complicated’.Ĭontrol is a companion piece to that one.
In his most recent book, How to Argue With a Racist, the geneticist Adam Rutherford set out a lucid account of how the basis for many widely held and apparently commonsensical ideas about race are pseudoscientific and he lightly sketched, along the way, the historical context in which they arose and the ideological prejudices that nourished them.
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