Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin’s Fallacy
28th May 2013
“Human Genetic Diversity: Lewontin’s Fallacy” is a 2003 paper by A. W. F. Edwards. He criticises an argument first made by Richard Lewontin in his 1972 article “The Apportionment of Human Diversity”,[1] which argued that division of humanity into races is taxonomically invalid.[2] Edwards’ critique is discussed in a number of academic and popular science books, not all of which endorse his conclusion.[3][4]