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Genetics and Race:
Current Research and Societal Impact
Suggested Articles
The
Genetic Archaeology of Race by Steve Olson
"Genetics research is demonstrating that the differences
in appearance among groups are profoundly incidental,
but these differences do have a genetic basis. And although
it's true that all people have inherited the same genetic
legacy, the genetic differences among groups have important
implications for our understanding of history and for
biomedical research. These complications in an otherwise
reassuring story have thoroughly spooked the leaders of
the public and private genome efforts."
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American
Anthropological Association Statement on "Race"
"Historical research has shown that the idea of "race"
has always carried more meanings than mere physical differences;
indeed, physical variations in the human species have no meaning
except the social ones that humans put on them."
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Does
Race Exist? A proponent's perspective by George W. Gill
"The "reality of race" therefore depends more
on the definition of reality than on the definition of race.
If we choose to accept the system of racial taxonomy that
physical anthropologists have traditionally established --
major races: black, white, etc. -- then one can classify human
skeletons within it just as well as one can living humans."
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