Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and HistoryTransaction Publishers, 2001 - 321 páginas 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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Genes, Race, and History Jonathan M. Marks. For my parents Contents Acknowledgments 1 THE HIERARCHY Introduction xiii Pattern and Process.
... PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES 25 Narrative as a Scientific Medium 25 Adaptation Stories 26 Disturbing the Conservative Nature of Heredity 28 Reproduction of Organisms : Meiosis Reproduction of Populations : The ...
... Differences among Human Groups Represent ? 106 Performance and Ability 109 Race as a Social Construct 110 The Linnaean and Buffonian Frameworks 113 7 PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN HUMAN POPULATIONS The Phenotype in. viii Contents.
... Patterns of Genetic Differentiation 165 Mitochondrial Eve 169 Patterns of Genetic Diversity 172 The Genetics of Individuality The Human Genome Project Who Is Related to Whom ? 173 174 176 10 THE ADAPTIVE NATURE OF HUMAN VARIATION ...
... Patterns of Gene Flow Adaptation Genetic Adaptation 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 ...
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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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