Vincent Sarich

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Vincent M. Sarich (born December 13, 1934 in Chicago , Illinois , † October 27, 2012 in Shoreline ) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

In the 1960s, he and Allan Wilson pioneered molecular clocks . In two publications printed in Science in 1966 and 1967 , it was shown that the variants of the globular protein albumin , which differ for each species , are suitable for reconstructing the relationship between species and at the same time estimating how many years ago the last common ancestor of these species lived.

Sarich was among the 52 co-signers of the essay Mainstream Science on Intelligence , written by Linda Gottfredson and published in December 1994 by the Wall Street Journal , which opposed the theses of The Bell Curve on the hereditary nature of intelligence . In 2004 he argued in his book Race. The Reality of Human Difference to the effect that the mean intelligence quotient of people in sub-Saharan Africa (which he assigned to a separate race ) is only approximately 70 points and that this is genetically determined.

Publications (selection)

  • with Allan C. Wilson: Quantitative Immunochemistry and the Evolution of Primate Albumins: Micro-Complement Fixation. In: Science . Volume 154, No. 3756, 1966, pp. 1563-1566, doi: 10.1126 / science.154.3756.1563
  • with Allen C. Wilson: Immunological time scale for hominid evolution. In: Science. Volume 158, No. 3805, 1967, pp. 1200–1203, doi: 10.1126 / science.158.3805.1200 , full text (PDF)
  • with Frank Miele: Race. The Reality of Human Differences. Westview Press (2004). ISBN 0-8133-4086-1
  • The Final Taboo in: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) January 1, 2000. Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 38
  • with P. Dolhinow: Background for man; readings in physical anthropology
  • Adrienne L. Zihlman, John E. Cronin, Douglas L. Cramer, Vincent M. Sarich: Pygmy chimpanzee as a possible prototype for the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas . In: Nature . Volume 275 (1978), pp. 744-746.
  • L. Zihlman, John E. Cronin, DL Cramer, Vincent M. Sarich: Pygmy Chimpanzee as a Possible Prototype for Common Ancestor of Humans, Chimpanzees and Gorillas . In: Nature.
  • Jon Marks, Carl W. Schmid, Vincent M. Sarich: DNA hybridization as a guide to phylogeny. Relations of the Hominoidea. In: Journal of Human Evolution. 17: 769-786 (1988).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Online obituary notice ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Linda Gottfredson : Mainstream Science on Intelligence. In: Wall Street Journal. December 13, 1994, page A18, full text (PDF)
  3. ↑ When the IQ is in the bush. On: sueddeutsche.de from May 17, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sarich, Vincent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarich, Vincent M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2012
Place of death Shoreline