Like many other elite institutions, UChicago is predominantly white and middle-class.

The hookworm story is pretty interesting. Not sure what you've read, but there's a lot of documentation.
http://rockefeller100.org/exhibits/show/…

I weigh 190 lbs and you can see my ribs. I'm sorry the mannequin offended Mr. Rudoy, but there are an awful lot of body variations out there.

and Gobineau, Toussenel, Rosenberg, Chamberlain.

Good call on Grant, but I'd also like add Hitler's favorite scientific racist, Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

There's an argument about hookworm to explain part of the North/South divergence. Also the fact that, in the postbellum South, black famers were far more productive than white ones, despite fewer resources. Black southerners had a much higher iron intake (their diet was high in ultra iron-rich foods like collard and…

Malaria became much more of a problem after the scramble for Africa/colonization than before, due to things like deforestation and of course the forced displacement of peoples. Malaria in Europe (places like Italy) was mostly eliminated, probably because civil engineering was developed enough to drain mosquito…

One major point they thought was misinterpreted is the idea that IQ is innate, the logic being that lower IQs are in part a function of poor education, and very high ones can be tilted by cultural emphasis on education (Jews). Not too different from Chua, learn more = smarter =$.

He was a really nice guy, once you got to know him.