Comments on: Link: Why Are Europeans White? http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/link-why-are-europeans-white/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Wed, 22 May 2013 23:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mary Robinette Kowal http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/link-why-are-europeans-white/#comment-1757 Mary Robinette Kowal Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:09:35 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6888#comment-1757 David: The original article was from 2002, which I should have noticed.

James: If you go to the longer peer-reviewed article that’s linked to at the bottom of the article, he deals with that as well as providing several corroborating sources.

]]> By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/link-why-are-europeans-white/#comment-1745 James Davis Nicoll Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:30:29 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6888#comment-1745 I can’t help but notice the map of human pigmentation used in that article is based on data from before 1940. How much trust should we place in researchers of that era to have dispassionately measured human characteristics?

]]> By: David W. Goldman http://www.sfwa.org/2009/12/link-why-are-europeans-white/#comment-1743 David W. Goldman Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:50:34 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=6888#comment-1743 Nifty!

However, apparently the Gulf Stream part of this explanation is wrong. At least, according to this 2006 article in American Scientist.

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