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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... Human Species 1 136 7 10 11 12 18 18 19 222 2 PROCESSES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF OUR ... Populations : The Gene Pool 29 32 Microevolutionary Processes 33 Macroevolutionary Processes 37 Evolutionary Narratives 38 Human ...
... HUMAN VARIATION Notes 49 60 4 THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGY OF HISTORY History as Inborn Propensities : Arthur de Gobineau History , Biology , and the Theory of Progress Social ... HUMAN POPULATIONS The Phenotype in. viii Contents.
... HUMAN POPULATIONS The Phenotype in Racial Studies Developmental Plasticity : The Skull in Racial Studies Genetics and the Human Races Blood Group Allele Frequencies in Populations Genetics of the Human Species 117 117 120 125 130 133 8 ...
... Human Variation as Phenotype Adaptation Nutritional Variation Uniquenesses of Human Adaptation Cultural Selection Culture as a Social Marker 183 185 187 191 193 195 196 198 199 11 HEALTH AND HUMAN POPULATIONS Demographic Transitions ...
... human history . Darwin reasoned that nature , over the vast expanse of time , could probably accomplish the same thing . Nature could select , through the environment , organisms with certain attributes , and give them a bet- ter - than ...
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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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