“The fact that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional is not widely recognized, even though it has now been reported by many articles in the literature of genetics. The reason is in part that the knowledge is so new and in part because it raises awkward challenges to deeply held conventional wisdom.”

— Nicholas Wade

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (2014)

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