Book contents
- Understanding Race
- Series page
- Understanding Race
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Evolutionary Background
- 2 Race before Evolutionary Theory
- 3 Race after Darwin
- 4 Race in the Era of Genetics and Genomics
- 5 Variation among Genomes, and How Humans Took over the World
- 6 Clustering and Treeing
- 7 Race in Medicine and Complex Phenotypic Studies
- 8 Human Adaptations
- 9 Science, Pseudoscience, and Race
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
1 - The Evolutionary Background
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2022
Book contents
- Understanding Race
- Series page
- Understanding Race
- Copyright page
- Reviews
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Evolutionary Background
- 2 Race before Evolutionary Theory
- 3 Race after Darwin
- 4 Race in the Era of Genetics and Genomics
- 5 Variation among Genomes, and How Humans Took over the World
- 6 Clustering and Treeing
- 7 Race in Medicine and Complex Phenotypic Studies
- 8 Human Adaptations
- 9 Science, Pseudoscience, and Race
- Summary of Common Misunderstandings
- References and Further Reading
- Figure Credits
- Index
Summary
Like every one of the many millions of other organisms with which we share our planet, the species Homo sapiens is the product of a long evolutionary history. The first very simple cellular organisms spontaneously arose on Earth close to four billion years ago, and their descendants have since diversified to give us forms as different as streptococci, roses, sponges, anteaters, and ourselves.
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- Understanding Race , pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022