Jonathan Marks

Human Biodiversity (eBook, ePUB)

Genes, Race, and History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351514620
• Artikelnr.: 48867641

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Marks

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments, 1. THE HIERARCHY, 2. PROCESSES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES, 3. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF HUMAN VARIATION, 4. THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGY OF HISTORY, 5. THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT, 6. RACIAL AND RACIST ANTHROPOLOGY, 7. PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN HUMAN POPULATIONS, 8. HUMAN MOLECULAR AND MICROEVOLUTIONARY GENETICS, 9. HUMAN DIVERSITY IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN GENETICS, 10. THE ADAPTIVE NATURE OF HUMAN VARIATION, 11. HEALTH AND HUMAN POPULATIONS, 12. HUMAN TRAITS: HERITAGE OR HABITUS?, 13. GENETICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 14. CONCLUSIONS, Appendix: DNA Structure and Function, Index