Human Biodiversity

Genes, Race, and History

By: Jonathan Marks

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Hardcover | 9 August 2017 | Edition Number 1

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Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomiesï¿½with 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 ideasï¿½four out of five scientists preferring a brand of cigarettes or toothpasteï¿½there 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 pastï¿½the history of other, more useful assumptions that derive from Buffon and have reemerged to account for genetic variationï¿½are the poles of Marks's exploration.

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