Book contents
- Understanding Human Diversity
- Series page
- Understanding Human Diversity
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 DNA Is Not Our Deep Inner Core
- 2 Our Fate Is Not in Our Genes
- 3 We Are Not 98% Chimpanzee
- 4 Human Variation Is Not Race
- 5 Political and Economic Inequality Is Not the Result of Genetics
- 6 Human Kinship Transcends Genetics
- 7 Men and Women Are Both from Earth
- 8 You Are Not 2% Interestingly Exotic
- 9 We Can’t Breed a Better Kind of Person
- 10 Conclusions
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure and Quotation Credits
- Index
9 - We Can’t Breed a Better Kind of Person
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024
- Understanding Human Diversity
- Series page
- Understanding Human Diversity
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 DNA Is Not Our Deep Inner Core
- 2 Our Fate Is Not in Our Genes
- 3 We Are Not 98% Chimpanzee
- 4 Human Variation Is Not Race
- 5 Political and Economic Inequality Is Not the Result of Genetics
- 6 Human Kinship Transcends Genetics
- 7 Men and Women Are Both from Earth
- 8 You Are Not 2% Interestingly Exotic
- 9 We Can’t Breed a Better Kind of Person
- 10 Conclusions
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure and Quotation Credits
- Index
Summary
Candace Owens, a right-wing media personality, told her audience in March of 2023 some pretty strange things about pit bulls and math scores. She observed that pit bulls had been bred to be fighting dogs, and quickly pivoted.
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- Understanding Human Diversity , pp. 120 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024