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Understanding Race (Paperback) Loot Price: R404
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Understanding Race (Paperback): Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall

Understanding Race (Paperback)

Rob Desalle, Ian Tattersall

Series: Understanding Life

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The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Understanding Life
Release date: July 2022
Authors: Rob Desalle • Ian Tattersall
Dimensions: 178 x 127 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-905558-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 1-00-905558-5
Barcode: 9781009055581

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