Human biodiversity : genes, race, and history /
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| Author / Creator: | Marks, Jonathan (Jonathan M.), 1955- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Aldine de Gruyter, c1995. |
| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Foundations of human behavior |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1632576 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Hierarchy. Pattern and Process. The Pattern: Linnaeus. The Opposition: Buffon. The Process: Lamarck. The Synthesis: Darwin. The Place of Humans in Nature. Anchoring the Emergence of Humans. The Great Chain in Cultural Evolution. Emergence of the Modern Culture Theory. Change without Progress: The Biological and Social History of the Human Species
- 2. Processes and Patterns in the Evolutionary History of Our Species. Narrative as a Scientific Medium. Adaptation Stories. Disturbing the Conservative Nature of Heredity. Reproduction of Organisms: Meiosis. Reproduction of Populations: The Gene Pool. Microevolutionary Processes. Macroevolutionary Processes. Evolutionary Narratives. Human Macroevolution. Linking Data into Histories. Patterns in the Evolution of Species and Culture
- 3. Physical Anthropology as the Study of Human Variation
- 4. The History of Biology and the Biology of History. History as Inborn Propensities: Arthur de Gobineau. History, Biology, and the Theory of Progress. Social Selection: Biological Progress as Social Progress. Survival of the Fittest: Parallel Progressive Processes. Competition of a Different Sort: Progress in History without Biology. Divorce of Race and Culture: Progress as an Illusion. The Culture Concept Nudges Out the Race Concept
- 5. The Eugenics Movement. A Simple Plan for Making Life Better. Mendelism in Eugenics. American Eugenics: The Peril of the Huddled Masses. Eugenics: Science and Pseudoscience. Eugenics in National Socialist Germany. Why Eugenics Failed. Lessons for Our Time
- 6. Racial and Racist Anthropology. Racism and Eugenics. Human Diversity. Racist Studies. Racial Studies. What do Differences among Human Groups Represent? Performance and Ability. Race as a Social Construct. The Linnaean and Buffonian Frameworks
- 7. Patterns of Variation in Human Populations. The Phenotype in Racial Studies. Developmental Plasticity: The Skull in Racial Studies. Genetics and the Human Races. Blood Group Allele Frequencies in Populations. Genetics of the Human Species
- 8. Human Molecular and Microevolutionary Genetics. Genes and Proteins. The Genome. Hemoglobin. Genome Structure and Evolution in the Globin Genes. The Comparison of Genetic Regions. Hemoglobin Variation in the Human Species. Thalassemia. Genetic Screening. Modern Eugenics. Hereditarianism
- 9. Human Diversity in the Light of Modern Genetics. Differences among the "Three Races" The Social Nature of Geographical Categories. Patterns of Genetic Differentiation. Mitochondrial Eve. Patterns of Genetic Diversity. The Genetics of Individuality. The Human Genome Project. Who Is Related to Whom?
- 10. The Adaptive Nature of Human Variation. Patterns of Gene Flow. Adaptation. Genetic Adaptation. Human Variation as Phenotype Adaptation. Nutritional Variation. Uniquenesses of Human Adaptation. Cultural Selection. Culture as a Social Marker
- 11. Health and Human Populations. Demographic Transitions. Demography versus Eugenics. Economics and Biology. The Cultural Nature of Disease. Ethnic Diseases. Culture and Biology: AIDS. Culture as Technological Fix
- 12. Human Traits: Heritage or Habitus? Aesop and Darwin. Sex and the Single Fruitfly. Rape as Heritage or Habitus. Proximate and Ultimate Cause in Biology. The Asphalt Jungle. Human Behavior as Heritage
- 13. Genetics and the Evolution of Human Behavior. On the Number of Michael Jordans in the Known Universe. Comparing Groups of People. Where Are the Great Jewish Boxers? How do we Establish the Genetic Base of a Behavior? The Genetics of Deviance. The Hereditarian Jumble. The Genetic Basis of Sexual Deviance. Genetic Behavior: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. Platonism and the Search for Human Nature. Was Hammerstein Wrong? Race, Xenophobia, and Lessons of History. 14. Conclusions
- Appendix: DNA Structure and Function.