Christine Kenneally’s ‘Invisible History of the Human Race’ - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/christine-kenneallys-invisible-history-of-the-human-race.html?_r=0

It's a far more plausible and evidence-based explanation for Africa's economic troubles than the one offered by Nicholas Wade's recent book, "A Troublesome Inheritance," which, with vaporous evidence, attributes weak African economies to African-­specific genetic profiles that purportedly discourage trust. Genetics gives all humans the power to create culture. Yet it appears most likely that it is not genetics but culture's manifestations, some lovely, some horrific, that distinguish and divide us.

---Steve