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Human Biodiversity

Jonathan Marks
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A-globin Gene
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Animal Kingdom
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biological anthropology
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Central Park Jogger
Cold Spring Harbor Symposium
Count De Buffon
Cranial Index
Cut DNA
DNA Segment
DNA Sequence Similarity
DNA Sequencing Technique
Ellis Van Creveld Syndrome
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eugenics history
evolutionary genetics
gene
Genetic Pathologies
Genus Homo
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Human Genetic Variation
Human Genome Diversity Project
human variation
IQ Test
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microevolutionary processes in humans
molecular anthropology
pool
population adaptation
Pygmy Chimpanzees
RFLP
Satellite DNA
Short DNA Sequence
Sickle Cell Allele
Vice Versa
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780202020334
  • Weight: 385g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Dec 1995
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.

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 ideas—four out of five scientists preferring a brand of cigarettes or toothpaste—there is a tendency to accept the judgment as authoritative without asking the kinds of questions we might ask of other citizens' pronouncements.
About Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks is a professor of anthropology, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He earned his M.S. in genetics, and M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Arizona, and has conducted postdoctoral research in genetics at the University of California at Davis. Mark's work on "molecular anthropology" has been widely published in professional journals.

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