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
9 - Science, Pseudoscience, and Race
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2022
- 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
Research prior to human genomics opened several doors to race-focused research, but the availability of genomes was a game-changer. As we pointed out in Chapter 4, there is nothing inherently wrong in using racial or ethnic boundaries as research tools for trying to discover biological patterns within the human species – if they are justified.
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- Understanding Race , pp. 135 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022