DeSalle / Tattersall Troublesome Science

The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54630-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2

Reihe: Race, Inequality, and Health

Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall explain how science has been misused to sustain belief in the biological basis of racial classification. Troublesome Science draws on the tools of taxonomy to show that while the diversity that exists within our species is a real phenomenon, it nevertheless defeats any attempt to recognize discrete units within it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeSalle, Rob

Tattersall, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Taxonomie und Systematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Evolutionary Lessons
2. Species and How to Recognize Them
3. Phylogenetic Trees
4. The Name Game: Modern Zoological Nomenclature and the Rules of Naming Things
5. DNA Fingerprinting and Barcoding
6. Early Biological Notions of Human Divergence
7. Mitochondrial Eve and Y Chromosome Adam
8. The Other 99 Percent of the Genome
9. ABBA/BABA and the Genomes of Our Ancient Relatives
10. Human Migration and Neolithic Genomes
11. Gene Genealogies and Species Trees
12. Clustering Humans?
13. STRUCTUREing Humans?
14. Mr. Murray Loses His Bet
Epilogue: Race and Society
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rob DeSalle is a curator in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History. He is the author of The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: Or How to Build a Dinosaur (with David Lindley, 1997) and the coauthor of Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You (2015), among others.

Ian Tattersall is curator emeritus in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. His many books include Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (2012) and The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution (2015).

DeSalle and Tattersall’s previous books together include Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (2007); Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth (2011); and A Natural History of Wine (2015).