The Boas-Chomsky Universality Theorem; Or, Cutting Molecular Anthropology Down to Size

Advances in genomics in the late-twentieth century inflated an expectations bubble. DNA was supposed to solve all medical problems before long and locate the real, molecular sources of human behavioral variability. DNA has been mobilized to answer Yali's question — “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little…