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
4 - Race in the Era of Genetics and Genomics
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
As scientific knowledge increased, the outward physical variation of humans on this planet posed a mystery to natural historians, and begged explanation. Why were there so many different “kinds” of people on the planet? If scientists could understand how this variation worked in nature, then perhaps, the reasoning went, we could understand why people appear different.
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- Understanding Race , pp. 45 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022