Rather than nature or nurture, the answer most likely lies in an interaction between the two.
Few issues are as provocative and as poorly understood as biological differences among the races.
So loaded are statements suggesting racial superiority or inferiority that, for the most part, an anxious hush surrounds the topic. Not shy about poking at the issue's softest spots, he goes after the history of sports and race science, the segregation and integration of sports, racial breeding and eugenics, sports and IQ, and the emergence of the black female athlete. Entine has put together a well-researched, relatively thorough and lucidly written case, arguing that in many sports particularly basketball, football, and track and field athletes of African descent show a competitive advantage. Elite athletes who trace most or all of their ancestry to Africa are by and large better than the competition. While people of African descent have spent most of their evolutionary history near to where they originated, the rest of the world's populations have had to modify their African adaptations after migrating to far different regions and climates.