Understanding race
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Understanding race
（Understanding life / series editor, Kostas Kampourakis）
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-165) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. 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. 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. 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. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.
Table of Contents
- 1. The evolutionary background
- 2. Race before evolutionary theory
- 3. Race after Darwin
- 4. Race in the era of genetics and genomics
- 5. Variation in genomes, and how humans took over the world
- 6. Clustering and treeing
- 7. Race in medicine and complex phenotypic studies
- 8. Human adaptations
- 9. Race, science and pseudoscience.
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