[applause] thank you their many friends in the audience and thanks to dalton conway for making the tripwn here to be with us tonight. "human diversity" is a big book and we don't have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the books

[applause] thank you their many friends in the audience and thanks to dalton conway for making the trip down here to be with us tonight. "human diversity" is a big book and we don't have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the books and 12 minutes and professor conley's job, dalton's job, is to point the conversation in any direction he wants and will take it from there in the discussion. i wanted to write "human diversity" for many reasons, but at the center is this fact. we are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era. advances in genetic genetics and neuroscience gives new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human society, policies and economies. we are like physicist, i'd like to say at the outset of the 19th century, poised at a moment in history that would protas faradays in the coming years. so people like me and dalton are to be excited and i think we both are. but a lot of social scientists are not. why? because for almost a century now the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodox events