Human biodiversity :genes, race, and history
- 作者: Marks, Jonathan
- 出版: New York : Aldine de Gruyter ©1995.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xiv, 321 pages) :illustrations, maps.
- 叢書名: Foundations of human behavior
- 標題: Molecular Biology , Population genetics. , Biodiversité. , Biodiversity. , Physical anthropology. , AnthropologyPhysical. , Eugenics history , genetics , SOCIAL SCIENCE , Génétique des populations. , Eugenics , physical anthropology. , Anthropologie physique. , Racial Groups genetics , Biodiversity , Human population genetics. , Anthropology, Physical , Génétique moléculaire. , Racial Groups , Electronic books. , Molecular genetics. , Genetics, Population , Génétique des populations humaines. , SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology -- Physical. , history
- ISBN: 0203789601 , 9780203789605
- ISBN: 0202020320 , 0202020339 , 9780202020327 , 9780202020334
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-313) and index. Chapter 1 The Hierarchy -- chapter 2 Processes and Patterns in the Evolutionary History of Our Species -- chapter 3 Physical Anthropology As The Study Of Human Variation -- chapter 4 The History Of Biology And The Biology Of History -- chapter 5 The Eugenics Movement -- chapter 6 Racial And Racist Anthropology -- chapter 7 Patterns Of Variation In Human Populations -- chapter 8 Human Molecular And Microevolutionary Genetics -- chapter 9 Human Diversity In The Light Of Modern Genetics -- chapter 10 : The Adaptive Nature Of Human Variation -- chapter 11 Health And Human Populations -- chapter 12 Human Traits: Heritage Or Habitus? -- chapter 13 Genetics And The Evolution Of Human Behavior -- chapter 14 Conclusions.
- 摘要: "The present volume is an attempt to synthesize, present, and argue for what has been learned and remains to be learned about the biological differences within and among human groups. Marks, a biologist as well as an anthropologist, avails himself of the data generated by molecular genetics about the hereditary composition of the human species. As it happens, genetics has undermined the fundamental assumptions of racial taxonomy, for genetic variation has turned out to be, to a large extent, polymorphism (variation within groups) rather than polytypy (variation among groups). Though populations at geographical extremes can be contrasted, the fundamental units of the human species are populations rather than races. Further, genetics provides little in the way of reliable biological history of our species, because human populations are culturally-defined, as well as biological, entities. And genetics has often been used as a scientific validation for cultural values - from the idea that there is indeed a small number of genetically distinct kinds of people ("races") to be identified to more pervasive suggestions about the relationship of genetics to behavior." "In its presentation of the bio-cultural nature of human diversity as well as in its presentation of the history of the problem and the illusions embedded in that history, this will be a widely used textbook that fills a void in the literature of biology and of physical anthropology."--Jacket.
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"Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative.The study of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species. In the simplest terms, people's lives and welfare may depend upon it, in a sense that they may not depend on the study of other scientific subjects. Where science is used to validate ideas—four out of five scientists preferring a brand of cigarettes or toothpaste—there is a tendency to accept the judgment as authoritative without asking the kinds of questions we might ask of other citizens' pronouncements.In Human Biodiversity, Marks has attempted to distill from a centuries-long debate what has been learned and remains to be learned about the biological differences within and among human groups. His is the first such attempt by an anthropologist in years, for genetics has undermined the fundamental assumptions of racial taxonomy. The history of those assumptions from Linnaeus to the recent past—the history of other, more useful assumptions that derive from Buffon and have reemerged to account for genetic variation—are the poles of Marks's exploration."--Provided by publisher.
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