Re: Definition of Race

Jennifer Mansfield-Jones (cardtris@umich.edu)
12 Feb 1995 16:26:23 GMT

In article <3h8lmbINNiv2@hpsdlmf7.sdd.hp.com>,
Gerold Firl <geroldf@sdd.hp.com> wrote:
>Last night I looked through the two books I own written by Gould; urchin in
>the storm and pandas thumb - looking for some examples of flagrant and
>outrageous ideologically based polemics. In all honesty, I couldn't find
>any. I guess I overstated my case. What I found instead was a more

Gould is silent at interesting points. One might expect that someone
with his interests in genetics and history would be in an excellent
position to offer a scathing analysis of Lysenkoism. I'm not aware
of any such, though I may have missed something.

regards,
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