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Ten
Things Everyone Should Know about Race |
A print-friendly version of our quick facts about
race (see the What Is Race section of this Web site). |
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Human
Diversity - GO DEEPER |
SHORT SUMMARY - why doesn't it make sense to sort
people into biological races? |
| race, genetics, anthropology, medicine, history |
Race
and Genomics: Is Race "Real?"
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ESSAYS - Web forum organized by the Social Sciences
Research Council in response to Armand Leroi's Op-Ed
in the NYT, with contributions from Troy Duster, Alan
Goodman, Evelynn Hammonds, Richard Lewontin and more. |
| race, genetics, anthropology, medicine, history |
A Racialized
Medical Genomics: Shiny, Bright and Wrong |
COMMENTARY by Robert Wallace. Several writers have
recently claimed that new genomics findings demonstrate
that race is biologically real after all, perhaps most
notably Armand Marie Leroi's New York Times op
ed of March 14, 2005. This excellent article by Robert
Wallace disputes that assertion. |
| race, medicine, classification, genetics, social construction |
WashingtonPost.com
- Online Chat with Pilar Ossorio May 1, 2003
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TRANSCRIPT OF LIVE CHAT - Legal scholar and microbiologist
Pilar Ossorio fields questions from viewers about science,
medicine, racial classification, and more. |
| race and medicine |
Unlikely
Mix: Race, Biology and Drugs |
OP ED BY TROY DUSTER - Can we create drugs that target
different races? Should we? An exploration of some of
the pitfalls of a recent study. |
| race and medicine |
The Misuse
of Race in Medical Diagnosis |
OP ED BY RICHARD S. GARCIA - What are the consequences
of making racial assumptions in the doctor's office?
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| race and genetics |
Race
and Gene Studies: What Differences Make a Difference? |
ESSAY BY LARRY ADELMAN - What, if anything, does
genetics tell us about race? How do we make sense of
recent genetic discoveries that seem to follow racial
lines? |
| genetics, biology, health, classification, law |
Interview
with Pilar Ossorio, legal scholar and microbiologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - Covering a wide range of topics:
biological notions of race, how race is socially real,
health consequences of race, drug company research,
classification. |
| genetics, biology, human variation, skin color |
Interview
with Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - how much genetic variation really
exists between people? Can genetic research help us
unlock human differences? |
| history of science, 19th century, medicine |
Interview
with Evelynn Hammonds, historian of science |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - 19th century race science, race
and medicine, how scientists are influenced by their
social context, etc. |
| genetics, biology, athletics |
Interview
with Joseph Graves, Jr., evolutionary biologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - are certain races athletically
superior? How much genetic diversity is there among
humans? |
| anthropology, biology, human variation, genetics,
evolution |
Interview
with Alan Goodman, biological anthropologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - what are our assumptions about
biology and race? What's the difference between looking
at race as a social idea and a scientific one? What
other explanations exist for why we look different?
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| anthropology, biology, athletics, classification,
human variation, genetics, history of science |
Interview
with Jonathan Marks, physical anthropologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - why doesn't it make sense to classify
people into races? How do we sort through all our confusion
about genetics, biology and things like athletic ability?
Where did our traditional notions of race come from? |
| evolution, genetics, history of science, biology,
anthropology |
Interview
with Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist |
EDITED TRANSCRIPT - why did different skin colors
evolve? where did the term Caucasian come from? are
scientists biased by their beliefs? |
| anthropology, classification, biology |
Scientific
and Folk Ideas about Heredity
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ARTICLE BY JONATHAN MARKS - why do we classify people
the way we do? Where do those ideas stem from, and how
do others do it differently? A humorous look at the
fallacies of biological race. |
| anthropology, classification, biology |
The Race
Pit |
COMMENTARY BY ALAN GOODMAN - how do biological anthropologists
continue to confuse and misunderstand race? A quick
summary of why race isn't useful (and is in fact harmful)
for anthropological research. |
| skin color, anthropology |
A
New Light on Skin Color
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NEWS ARTICLE - A summary of Nina Jablonski's theory
suggesting that two vitamins - Vitamin D and folate
- are connected to the evolution of different skin colors
among humans. |
| anthropology, classification, biology, genetics |
Races
without Colors
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link takes you to Discover Magazine's archive page.
To locate this article, enter the title into the box
labeled "SEARCH FOR KEYWORD IN TITLE".)
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ARTICLE BY JARED DIAMOND - this pioneering article,
published in Discover Magazine in 1994, illustrates
how human traits don't co-vary with "races."
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