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Understanding Race (Paperback)
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Understanding Race (Paperback)
Series: Understanding Life
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Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
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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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