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a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."

By Peter Taylor "Some people suggest that race is coded in genes and genes determine IQ test scores. A slightly less simple but similar supposition is that differences among races are associated with differences in genes that people have, which, in turn, are associated with differences in IQ test scores. Yet everyone has a sense that such claims are controversial. What should you think about them?"