Rebecca Sear

Rebecca Sear is director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University of London. She is also the president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.

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Half the Answer #21: Racist Pseudoscience in Academia and Beyond

Caitlin and Trent talk to anthropologist Rebecca Sear about the troubling trend in academia of allowing scientific racism, or the pseudoscientific belief that humans can be divided into genetically distinct racial groups with discrete measurements for things like IQ, personality traits, and behavior, to persist and present itself as a