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Volume 13: Number 4: Article 6
Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Racial Prejudice
Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, School of Mathematics, Cardiff
University, PO Box 926, Senghennydd Road,Cardiff CF2 4YH, UK
We discuss a possible biological explanation of the phenomenon of color-prejudice
that hinges on the relative advantages and disadvantages in the expression
of the strongly dominant gene(s) for melanin under ice-age conditions
at different locations on the Earth. An understanding of the genesis
of this prejudice could hopefully eradicate or ameliorate its worst
manifestations in modern society.
Keywords: race, color predjudice, genetics, ice ages, human evolution
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Towards an Understanding of the Nature of Racial Prejudice
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