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2) Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
Author
Language
English
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Description
An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category...
Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists.Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland. Through a systematic, ten-year DNA survey of more than 10,000 volunteers, Bryan Sykes has traced the true genetic makeup of British Islanders and their descendants. This historical travelogue and genetic tour of the fabled isles,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. From Paabo, we learn how Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What does science say about race? In this book a research geneticist [posits] that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact, [and] the author describes in detail the factors that have led to the current scientific consensus about race"--Amazon.com
Series
Vital and health statistics. Series 11 Data from the National Health Survey volume no. 168
DHEW publication volume no. (PHS) 80-1664
DHEW publication volume no. (PHS) 80-1664
Publisher
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Office of Health Research, Statistics, and Technology, National Center for Health Statistics
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
