Screen LibraryRace?：debunking a scientific myth
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Texas A&M University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | College Station |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 15 |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 226 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781603444255 (cloth : alk. paper) 1603444254 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C951 |
| CLC: | C951 |
| Call Number: | C951/T221 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-215) and index. Race in Western scientific history -- Species, patterns, and evolution -- Human evolution and dispersal -- Is 'race' a biological problem? -- Race in ancestry, forensics, and disease. The authors explain what human races are and are not, and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity. Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race. To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among 'races' remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint ... |