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Race? : debunking a scientific myth / Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tattersall, Ian.
- Series:
- Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 15.
- Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Race in Western scientific history
- Species, patterns, and evolution
- Human evolution and dispersal
- Is "race" a biological problem?
- Race in ancestry, forensics, and disease.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05362-9
- 1-60344-477-7
- OCLC:
- 759040839
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