Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and HistoryTransaction Publishers, 2001 - 321 Seiten Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies--with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative. The "study "of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species. In the simplest terms, people's lives and welfare may depend upon it, in a sense that they may not depend on the study of other scientific subjects. Where science is used to validate ideas--four out of five scientists preferring a brand of cigarettes or toothpaste--there is a tendency to accept the judgment as authoritative without asking the kinds of questions we might ask of other citizens' pronouncements. In "Human Biodiversity, "Marks has attempted to distill from a centuries-long debate what has been learned and remains to be learned about the biological differences within and among human groups. His is the first such attempt by an anthropologist in years, for genetics has undermined the fundamental assumptions of racial taxonomy. The history of those assumptions from Linnaeus to the recent past--the history of other, more useful assumptions that derive from Buffon and have reemerged to account for genetic variation--are the poles of Marks's exploration. |
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... Cultural Evolution Emergence of the Modern Culture Theory Change without Progress : The Biological and Social History of the Human Species 1 136 7 10 11 12 18 18 19 222 2 PROCESSES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES ...
... Cultural Selection Culture as a Social Marker 183 185 187 191 193 195 196 198 199 11 HEALTH AND HUMAN POPULATIONS Demographic Transitions Demography versus Eugenics Economics and Biology The Cultural Nature of Disease Ethnic Diseases ...
... cultural upbringing and life expe- riences . The pronouncements of scientists on human variation may be as loaded with cultural prejudices as those of anyone else — and as history shows us , indeed they usually have been . Except that ...
... cultural history surrounding the collection and interpretation of those data . We try neither to exalt nor to profane the human species ; we handle science in the same way . The human species is both different from , and similar to ...
... CULTURAL EVOLUTION Scientists of the 19th and early 20th centuries appreciated that the comparisons between humans and apes that ultimately helped to estab- lish where humans fit into the scheme of nature still yielded an incom- plete ...
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PROCESSES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY | 25 |
The Gene Pool | 32 |
Evolutionary Narratives | 38 |
Patterns in the Evolution of Species and Culture | 44 |
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AS THE STUDY | 49 |
Notes | 60 |
History Biology and the Theory of Progress | 66 |
The Culture Concept Nudges Out the Race Concept | 73 |
Hemoglobin Variation in the Human Species | 146 |
HUMAN DIVERSITY IN THE LIGHT | 157 |
Patterns of Genetic Differentiation | 165 |
Patterns of Genetic Diversity | 172 |
THE ADAPTIVE NATURE OF HUMAN VARIATION | 183 |
HEALTH AND HUMAN POPULATIONS | 203 |
HERITAGE OR HABITUS? | 219 |
GENETICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN | 237 |
RACIAL AND RACIST ANTHROPOLOGY | 99 |
PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN HUMAN | 117 |
Genetics and the Human Races | 125 |
Genetics of the Human Species | 133 |
The Genome | 139 |
How do we Establish the Genetic Base | 243 |
CONCLUSIONS | 265 |
Index | 314 |
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