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Human Biodiversity - Genes, Race, and History (Hardcover)
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Human Biodiversity - Genes, Race, and History (Hardcover)
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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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