A historical Pachinko machine, a relative of Francis Galton's
Quincunx and the AAKKOZZLL, and the predecessor of the widely popular amusement
in today's Japan. Click here for more info – photo
by Gnsin.
Every person born is a highly probabilistic creature, having been randomly put together by a chance selection from twenty-three chromosomes from each parent. The combinatorial variation is remarkable even in extremely homogeneous populations, and even more so in multicultural populations where there are great disparities in the average abilities of different groups.
Nuenke, Matthew, December 11, 2000, www.neoeugenics.com
A review of the book From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice,
2000, by:
Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels & Daniel Wikler
