Understanding Race Paperback / softback
by Rob (American Museum of Natural History, New York) DeSalle, Ian (American Museum of Natural History, New York) Tattersall
Part of the Understanding Life series
Paperback / softback
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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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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:188 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/07/2022
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- ISBN:9781009055581
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In Stock - Less than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:188 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:07/07/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009055581
