• communicate--something that looks strange may be a mistake
• expect once a week live class on Zoom (hopefully Wed.s at 9) and some additional or modified assignments
• be careful around older people and people with chronic illnesses
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Saini says being brown skinned (with ancestors from India) not white undercut her claim to be British

Turns out the earliest Britons were black

• white skin may be a very recent evolution
• skin pigmentation genes are varied even in Africa and not a good measure of relatedness
• lighter skin came to Britain with migrants, so the people who think of themselves as of original British stock actually genetically came later
• so identity is about culture, not race or genetics or skin color

David Reich: a scientist who is not racist but not anti-racist

• his research shows how mixed we all are
• but he thinks there may be average differences between groups
• argument against this--differences are all gentle gradients, it is still being misused

Should scientists not look for differences between populations
you can argue these aren't the interesting differences
Saini is a journalist talking to scientists

• she is reporting to the public about what scientists have learned
• she is criticizing scientists who study race
• arguing their work is not good science, it is shaped by a political agenda
• she has a political agenda, hasn't looked for anti-racist scientists doing distorted science
• she has a message: that our cultural ideas about race do not have a scientific basis
• this comes from her personal experience
• the authority of science can be misused