Interesting new book out this week

Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive

by Alon Ziv

Book Description This book combines sex, race, health and genetics in a daring new theory. Written with accessible, direct prose, anecdotes, analogies, and examples from human and animal studies, it is sure to spark debate in a massive way.

Jay Phelan, Author of Mean Genes: Breeding Between the Lines is that rare book that is insightful and revolutionary, while remaining compulsively readable and downright fun.

And here's Zvi's website on the book

By the way, Zvi tells me he's probably not related to Sabbetai Zevi, much as he would enjoy being related to a self-proclaimed messiah.

I've read it and it's an extremely lively book. Plus, it's got a great quote from me, and my influence is evident on a lot of pages.

On the other hand, I'm not fully convinced by the evidence for much additional hybrid vigor from marrying intercontinentally. Clearly, if all your ancestors came from one little valley up in the mountains, you'd be well advised to marry somebody from outside the valley. Still, it's not clear that marrying somebody from the other side of the ocean adds much hybrid vigor over marrying somebody from a couple of valleys away. Interracial marriage is a sure way to eliminate inbreeding in your offspring, but I'm not sure that significant inbred depression is much of a problem in American life these days.

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