Understanding Race DeSalle Rob American Museum of Natural History New York
Understanding Race DeSalle Rob American Museum of Natural History New York The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations…
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Understanding Race DeSalle Rob American Museum of Natural History New York
The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. 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. 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.
It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human 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.