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Taking race out of human genetics

Molekularbiologe, alle Lizenzen

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Christoph Weigel

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Mittwoch, 10.02.2016

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Michael Yudell, Dorothy Roberts, Rob DeSalle & Sarah Tishkoff in a recent article in Science: "We believe the use of biological concepts of race in human genetic research — so disputed and so mired in confusion — is problematic at best and harmful at worst. It is time for biologists to find a better way".

Megan Gannon gives a brief, concise summary of this article in the popular science journal Scientific American. Five minutes reading, worth spending ...

Quelle: Megan Gannon scientificamerican.com

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More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people. He spok...

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