Jesse Owens and Hitler
Others care about Olympic track too.
The popular wisdom is that human biodiversity is scientifically impossible, and that is a good thing, because it would be the end of human civilization if it turned out to be true.
As you may have noticed once or twice over last three decades, in response I sometimes point to Olympic track results as evidence that not only does human biodiversity exist, but that its existence is something that we seem to tolerate without it driving us crazy.
The most common retort I get from upholders of the conventional wisdom is: “Nobody cares about sports!”
Yet that doesn’t seem to be true when it comes to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics, which academics seem to care about very much.
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