A troublesome inheritance : genes, race, and human history

By:

Wade, Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Penguin Book 2015Description: x, 278pISBN:

9780143127161 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

599.938 WAD

Summary: "Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Natural Science	599.938 WAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004608

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"Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story

Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory."

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