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THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF POPULATIONS - A JACQUA...

It is part of the ideology of science that it is an international enterprise  carried out by a
community that knows no barriers of nation or culture. But the reality is somewhat different.
Despite the best intentions of scientists to form a single community  unseparated by
differences of national and political viewpoint  they are  in fact  separated by language.
Scientific literature in German is not generally assimilated by French workers  nor that
appearing in French by those whose native language is English. The problem appears to have
become more severe since the last war  because the ascendance of the United States as the
preeminent economic power led  in a time of big and expensive science  to a pre­ dominance of
American scientific production and a growing tendency (at least among English-speakers) to
regard English as the international language of science. International congresses and journals
of world circulation have come more and more to take English as their standard or official
language. As a result  students and scientific workers in the English speaking world have
become more linguistically parochial than ever before and have been cut off from a considerable
scientific literature. Population genetics has been no exception to the rule. The elegant and
extremely innovative theoreticaI work of Malecot  for example  is only now being properly
assimilated by population biologists outside France. It was therefore with some sense of
frustration that I read Prof.

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