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A major thrust of my research program has been to understand how genetic variation within populations translates into variation between populations and species, and to determine the impact of natural selection on this process.

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Life and living of over 300 million in populations involves activity that more often than not requires medical care and attention that constitutes currently about 16% of the economy, much of it in interstate commerce and/or intrastate affecting interstate commerce.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010

We tried to explained to him about African American Vernacular English, where it comes from, why certain populations speak it, and he kept saying so you are saying it is something in their genes that makes them talk this way?

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Even with the orders of magnitude difference in populations, there are probably more Fins that care about cross-country skiing than there are Americans that care about it.

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I also suspect that this is the reason that we see clusters of extreme intellectual abilities in populations that have had a long continuous history civilization such as East Asia and India where such traits are crucial to success.

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And the specter of 2005 riots that spread through poor housing projects nationwide with disenfranchised immigrant populations is never far away.

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And the specter of 2005 riots that spread through poor housing projects nationwide with disenfranchised immigrant populations is never far away.

France Riots Disrupt Airport Travel In Paris & Beyond AP 2010

Life and living of over 300 million in populations involves activity that more often than not requires medical care and attention that constitutes currently about 16% of the economy, much of it in interstate commerce and/or intrastate affecting interstate commerce.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010

And the specter of 2005 riots that spread through poor housing projects nationwide with disenfranchised immigrant populations is never far away.

France Riots Disrupt Airport Travel In Paris & Beyond AP 2010

“Dozens of genes associated with almost every imaginable trait” says nothing about distribution over populations, about how to define subgroups within populations, about whether there are firm connections between particular genes and particular subgroups.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups 2010