Race? : debunking a scientific myth / / Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle
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| Autore: |
Tattersall Ian
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| Titolo: |
Race? : debunking a scientific myth / / Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle
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| Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race |
| Human evolution | |
| Altri autori: |
DeSalleRob
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Race in Western scientific history -- Species, patterns, and evolution -- Human evolution and dispersal -- Is "race" a biological problem? -- Race in ancestry, forensics, and disease. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. Differences among human populations that people intuitively view as "racial" are not only superficial but are also of astonishingly recent ori |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Race |
| ISBN: | 1-299-05362-9 |
| 1-60344-477-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828354903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Texas A & M University anthropology series ; ; no. 15.