This book challenges popular assumptions about the role of heredity in human life. Written in an accessible style, it will appeal to a general readership with an interest in anthropology, human genetics, human evolution, history of science and sociology of science, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students studying these topics.
This book challenges popular assumptions about the role of heredity in human life. Written in an accessible style, it will appeal to a general readership with an interest in anthropology, human genetics, human evolution, history of science and sociology of science, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students studying these topics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jonathan Marks has worked in biological anthropology and evolutionary genetics and is presently a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has been a visiting research fellow at the ESRC Genomics Institute in Edinburgh, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study in Indiana. His work has been published in Science and Nature, and his prolific scholarship has appeared in journals ranging from American Anthropologist to Zygon.
Inhaltsangabe
1. DNA is not our deep inner core 2. Our fate is not in our genes 3. We are not 98% chimpanzee 4. Human variation is not race 5. Political and economic inequality is not the result of genetics 6. Human kinship transcends genetics 7. Men and women are both from Earth 8. You are not 2% interestingly exotic 9. We can't breed a better kind of person 10. Conclusions Summary of common misunderstandings References Figure credits Index.
1. DNA is not our deep inner core 2. Our fate is not in our genes 3. We are not 98% chimpanzee 4. Human variation is not race 5. Political and economic inequality is not the result of genetics 6. Human kinship transcends genetics 7. Men and women are both from Earth 8. You are not 2% interestingly exotic 9. We can't breed a better kind of person 10. Conclusions Summary of common misunderstandings References Figure credits Index.
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