I've just discovereed that Kenan Malik, who wrote the review of Wade's book for The Times, has made an extended version of his review available on his blog: https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/a-fairy-tale-but-oh-so-feeble/ Debboe -----Original Message----- From: Debbie Kennett [mailto:debbiekennett@gmail.com] Sent: 29 June 2014 11:42 To: Haplogroup I list (y-dna-haplogroup-i@rootsweb.com) Subject: RE: Recommended book I note that no one has been able to answer my question about how many "races" there are. Coincidentally Nicholas Wade's book was reviewed in The Times yesterday. Fortunately reviewers on this side of the Atlantic have been able to see through Wade's dangerous outdated, prejudiced and unscientific hogwash. It seems that Wade's classification of races is a purely arbitrary arrangement: "Wade insists that a race is a "continental population"... But what is it about continental groups that distinguishes them as races? And why should continental groups, as opposed to other population groups, be defined as races? Wade never tells us; nor even how many races there are. On page 4, Wade claims "three principal races": Africans, East Asians and Caucasians. Sixty pages on, the three have become five with the addition of native Americans and "the peoples of Australia and Papua New Guinea". On page 100, Wade suggests that "it might be reasonable to elevate the Indian and Middle Eastern groups to the level of major races, making seven in all". But, "then many more subpopulations could be declared races, so to keep things simple, the five-race, continent-based scheme seems the most practical". We could, in other words, define as many races as we wish to, but for "practical" reasons Wade will arbitrarily limit it to five. Not, it has to be said, a particularly scientific approach." The reviewer goes on to say: "As with much of this book, it is a fairytale presented as science." I'm not sure if you will be able to read the whole review without a subscription http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/non-fiction/article4129896.ece Debbie