[lbo-talk] Why Blacks opposed Prop 8 -- and a simple way to turnthem?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Nov 14 09:52:10 PST 2008


Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Is this the jackass who was promoting genetic/racial theories of IQ
> not all that long ago?


>From some things I have read recently I gather that geneticists are
beginning seriously to doubt that genes are the most important element in genetic causation. It gets messier and messier all the time it seems. A given trait is apt to have come from a virus that invaded a few million years ago. And the idea of a one-to-one correlation between gene and trait is almost defunct.

Carrol



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