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1 online resource (xv, 214 pages) : illustrations |
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PART ONE: Race is a slippery word -- Race classification: an impossible task -- Skulls, women, and savages: the art of craniology -- Full blood, half-blood, and tainted blood -- Racial traits: more fiction than fact -- You cannnot judge a book by its cover -- PART TWO: Did we evolve form apes, and if so, from how many? -- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fittest of us all? -- Adaptive or not adaptive, that is the question -- Why different skin colors? -- Why different shapes of noses? Why so much or so little hair on the body or the head? -- Why different color of eye and hair? -- Race: genetists led astray -- Race and IQ: a pseudo-problem -- Race and disease: another pseudo-problem -- How the U.S, government classifies its citizens: a real problem -- PART THREE: Of species and races: a modern view -- Each one of us is unique -- Of genes and chromosomes: no one is like you -- Myths about ancestry -- Of DNA and proteins, or No one is like you -- Except for a very few of us, we are all colored -- Can we change your skin color? -- Nothing under the Sun is just Black or White -- Genes and skin color: the more the merrier -- Concluding thoughts |
| Summary |
The idea that human races exist is a socially constructed myth that has no grounding in science. Regardless of skin, hair, or eye color, stature or physiognomy, we are all of one species. Nonetheless, scientists, social scientists, and pseudo-scientists have, for three centuries, tried vainly to prove that distinctive and separate ""races"" of humanity exist. These protagonists of race theory have based their flawed research on one or more of five specious assumptions: - humanity can be classified into groups using identifiable physical characteristics, - human characteristics a |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Race.
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race (group of people)
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SCIENCE -- General.
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Race
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780870139031 |
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0870139037 |
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9781628962154 |
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1628962151 |
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