Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture
by
 
Krimsky, Sheldon.

Title
Race and the genetic revolution : science, myth, and culture

Author
Krimsky, Sheldon.

ISBN
9780231527699

Publication Information
New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011.

Physical Description
1 online resource

General Note
Includes index.
 
"A project of the Council for Responsible Genetics."

Abstract
Leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including law, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology, examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Does mapping the human genome reconstitute a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in forensic DNA databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine. Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in both science and popular culture. Divid.

Subject Term
Human population genetics.
 
Race.
 
Continental Population Groups -- genetics.
 
Genetics.
 
Evolution, Molecular.
 
Genetic Variation.

Added Author
Krimsky, Sheldon.
 
Sloan, Kathleen, 1958-

Electronic Access
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/krim15696


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