{"id":73159,"date":"2015-08-28T11:50:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73159"},"modified":"2023-09-10T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:35:46","slug":"southern-poverty-law-center-goes-after-henry-harpending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=73159","title":{"rendered":"Southern Poverty Law Center Goes After Henry Harpending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jayman writes<\/a>: The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) current<\/a> “Featured Extremist” (their words) is none other than the mild-mannered Henry Harpending of West Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n

They go into a fair amount of detail about Harpending and his work, but take a look at what they say. Are they actually trying to discredit him (emphasis mine)?<\/p>\n

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Henry Harpending is a controversial anthropologist at the University of Utah who studies human evolution and, in his words, \u201cgenetic diversity within and between human populations.\u201d Harpending is most famous for his book, co-authored with frequent collaborator Gregory Cochran, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution<\/i>, which argues that humans are evolving at an accelerating rate, and that this began when the ancestors of modern Europeans and Asians left Africa. Harpending believes that this accelerated evolution is most visible in differences between racial groups, which he claims are growing more distinct and different from one another. The evolution of these racial differences are, in Harpending\u2019s account, the driving force behind all of modern human history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You don’t say? I did:<\/p>\n

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Evolution explains history.<\/p>\n

— JayMan (@JayMan471) February 23, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n