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
5 - Variation among Genomes, and How Humans Took over the World
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
A big part of the story of our species, and of how variation is apportioned within it, involves how our ancestors spread over the globe. After all, if we had simply stayed in our place of origin in Africa and not ventured out, there would be no question that we are a single entity. That is because if our species had been restricted to a single location (as many others are), two things would have ensured that differentiation into separate entities would not have occurred.
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- Understanding Race , pp. 67 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022