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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