Quotes from Adam Rutherford

Eighty-five percent of human variation, according to the genetic differences in blood groups, was seen in the same racial groups. Of the remaining 15 percent, only 8 percent accounted for differences between one racial group and another.

In science we look to Occam's razor (or scientific parsimony) to understand phenomena, the concept that the best hypothesis is the one that requires the fewest assumptions.

For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong." H. L. Mencken

The American Nazi Party asserts that they are not White supremacists, merely separatists. They also specifically want to ban modern art and rap music. So it goes.

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

We look to statistics for reassurance in these types of situations. Here is one: 100% of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns. I can guarantee that even if there were a genotype shared by the mass shooters, which there will not be, none of the killings would have happened if they didn't have guns.

And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.

Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. Neither race nor racism has foundations in science. It is our duty to contest the warping of scientific research, especially if it is being used to justify prejudice. If you are a racist, then you are asking for a fight. But science is my ally, not yours, and your fight is not just with me, but with reality.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.

none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are too untidy, human history is too convoluted, people too motile. The deck has been shuffled and reshuffled. Genetics has shown that people are different, and these differences cluster according to geography and culture, but never in a way that aligns with the traditional concepts of human races.

We sometimes forget that though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

Nature is not cruel, it is simply indifferent

Scientific racism' or 'race science' are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains.

Alas, we are no more or less evolved than any creature. Uniqueness is terribly overrated.

In the words of Dr. Seuss: Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.

Evolution, blind and slow, has not inched along over billions of years with any intention that it should be decipherable to one or any of its billions of children.

Except if you're of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.

Everyone alive in the tenth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, and his children Drogo, Pippin and, of course, not forgetting Hugh. If

As Jonathan Swift said in 1721: 'Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.

Genetics is messy and mathematical, but powerful if deployed in the right way. People are horny. Lives are complex. A secret history is truly hidden in the mosaics of our genomes, but caveat emptor. No

Almost all science is done by very normal people