Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race - Softcover

Fairbanks, Daniel J.

 
9781633880184: Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1633880184 ISBN 13: 9781633880184
Verlag: Prometheus Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation. In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact.

The author lucidly describes in detail the factors that have led to the current scientific consensus about race. Both geneticists and anthropologists now generally agree that the human species originated in sub-Saharan Africa and darkly pigmented skin was the ancestral state of humanity. Moreover, worldwide human diversity is so complex that discrete races cannot be genetically defined. And for individuals, ancestry is more scientifically meaningful than race.

Separate chapters are devoted to controversial topics: skin color and the scientific reasons for the differences; why ancestry is more important to individual health than race; intelligence and human diversity; and evolutionary perspectives on the persistence of racism.

This is an enlightening book that goes a long way toward dispelling the irrational notions at the heart of racism.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Daniel J. Fairbanks is the dean of the College of Science and Health at Utah Valley University and a distinguished university professor, research geneticist, artist, and author. He is the author of Evolving: The Human Effect and Why It Matters; Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA; and the coauthor (with A. Franklin, A. W. F. Edwards, D. L. Hartl, and T. Seidenfeld) of Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy, and (with W. R. Andersen) of Genetics: The Continuity of Life, in addition to numerous journal articles.

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Verlag
Prometheus Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1633880184
ISBN 13 
9781633880184
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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