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Nicholas Wade Nicholas Wade ( born 17 May 1942 ) is a British author and journalist . He is the author of numerous books , and has served as staff writer and editor for Nature , Science , and the science section of The New York Times . His 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance : Genes , Race and Human History was widely denounced by the scientific community for misrepresenting research into human population genetics . Early life and education . Wade was born in Aylesbury , England and educated at Eton College . He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from Kings College , Cambridge in 1964 . Wade immigrated to the United States in 1970 . Career . Wade was a science writer and editor for the journals Nature , from 1967 to 1971 , and Science , from 1972 to 1982 . He joined The New York Times in 1982 and retired in 2012 , but he freelances occasionally for his former employer . At the Times he served as an editorial writer covering science , environment and defence , and then as an editor of the science section . His 1980 book , The Nobel Duel : Two Scientists Twenty-one Year Race to Win the Worlds Most Coveted Research Prize , described the competition between Andrew Schally and Roger Guillemin , whose discoveries regarding the peptide hormone led to them sharing the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine . According to the Washington Post Book World , it may be the most unflattering description of scientists ever written . ( 1982 ) , co-authored with William J . Broad , discusses historical and contemporary examples of scientific fraud . In the 2000s , Wades books began to focus on human evolution . He released in 2006 , which is about what Wade referred to as two vanished periods in human development , and The Faith Instinct in 2009 , about the evolution of religious behavior . In 2014 , Wade released , in which he argued that human evolution has been recent , copious , and regional and that genes may have influenced a variety of behaviours that underpin differing forms of human society . The book has been widely denounced by scientists , including many of those upon whose work the book was based . On 8 August 2014 , The New York Times Book Review published an open letter signed by 139 faculty members in population genetics and evolutionary biology . After publication , the letter was signed by 4 more faculty members . The letter read : Wade juxtaposes an incomplete and inaccurate account of our research on human genetic differences with speculation that recent natural selection has led to worldwide differences in I.Q . test results , political institutions and economic development . We reject Wades implication that our findings substantiate his guesswork . They do not . We are in full agreement that there is no support from the field of population genetics for Wades conjectures . Wade issued a statement in response , saying that these scientists had misunderstood his intent . The book was further criticized in a series of five reviews by Agustín Fuentes , Jonathan M . Marks , Jennifer Raff , Charles C . Roseman and Laura R . Stein . which were published together in the scientific journal Human Biology . Marks , for instance , described the book as entirely derivative , an argument made from selective citations , misrepresentations , and speculative pseudoscience . Other reviews were more moderate in their criticism , such as that of H . Allen Orr , who wrote in The New York Review of Books that Wades survey of human population genomics is lively and generally serviceable . It is not , however , without error . He exaggerates , for example , the percentage of the human genome that shows evidence of recent natural selection . In May of 2021 , Wade published an article which advanced the claim that COVID-19 originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology . This claim is at odds with the current scientific consensus that the virus most likely has a zoonotic origin .