Understanding Race

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Rob DeSalle is a Curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Biology and the Program for Microbial Research of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. His research focuses on molecular systematics, microbial evolution, and genomics. He is the author of over 500 scientific papers and a wide range of books, from popular science titles to textbooks on genomics.Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. His most recent research is on the emergence of modern human cognition. He is author of over 400 scientific papers, numerous books and is a prominent interpreter of palaeoanthropology to the public, and writes regularly for Natural History.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rob DeSalle, Rob (American Museum of Natural History Desalle, DeSalle Rob, Ian Tattersall, Ian (American Museum of Natural History Tattersall, Tattersall Ian
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.07.2022
• EAN: 9781316511374
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51137-4
• Pagine: 188
• Serie: Understanding Life
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; History of Ideas, Social Theory, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology