Jewish Gene?
Richard C. Lewontin
Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish
People
by Harry Ostrer
Oxford University Press, 264 pp, $24.95
The Genealogical Science: The Search for
Jewish Origins ... consciousness of the
past. That belief is summed up in the title
of Harry Ostrer's book, Legacy: A Genetic
History of the Jewish People. It is also
implied ... female, with a record of our maternal
ancestry, uncontaminated by their male
partners.
Harry Ostrer, who is a professor of genetics
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and
Raphael Falk