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02963cam a2200277 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780231185721 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
0231185723 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
576.58 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
DeSalle, Rob, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Troublesome Science : The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understand Race / |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York . : |
| Name of publisher |
Columbia University Press . ; |
| Year of publication |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
xi, 200 pages ; |
| Other physical details |
23 cm. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Race, inequality, and health |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
includes index |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Evolutionary lessons -- Species and how to recognize them -- Phylogenetic trees -- The name game : modern zoological nomenclature and the rules of naming things -- DNA fingerprinting and barcoding -- Early biological notions of human divergence -- Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam -- The other 99 percent of the genome -- ABBA/BABA and the genomes of our ancient relatives -- Human migration and Neolithic genomes -- Gene genealogies and species trees -- Clustering humans? -- STRUCTUREing humans? -- Mr. Murray loses his bet -- Epilogue: Race and society |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
It is well established that all human beings today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human "races" have a biological reality. From pharmacological researchers to the U.S. government, the dubious tradition of classifying people by race lives on. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and compelling presentation of how the tools of modern biological science have been misused to sustain the belief in the biological basis of racial classification. Troublesome Science argues that taxonomy, the scientific classification of organisms, provides a cure for such misbegotten mischaracterizations. DeSalle and Tattersall explain how taxonomists do their job, in particular the genomic and morphological techniques they use to identify a species and to understand and organize the relationships among different species and the variants within them. They detail the use of genetic data to trace human origins and look at how scientists have attempted to recognize discrete populations within Homo sapiens. DeSalle and Tattersall demonstrate conclusively that these techniques, when applied correctly to the study of human variety, fail to find genuine differences, striking a blow against pseudoscientific chicanery. While the diversity that exists within our species is a real phenomenon, it nevertheless defeats any systematic attempt to recognize discrete units within it. The stark lines that humans insist on drawing between their own groups and others are nothing but a mixture of imagination and ideology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Population genetics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Genomics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Evolution (Biology) |
| 650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Genetics, Population. |
| 650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Continental Population Groups. |
| 650 12 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Genomics. |
| 650 22 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Biological Evolution. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Tattersall, Ian, |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |
