Is Genetics Changing Our Understanding Race?
The New York Times published a Sunday Review that I think you all will find a balanced opinion on genetics …
Tag Archives: race
Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
If you have been following this blog along with others, like GNXP, you can tell that the field of ancient …
Race Is A Social Construct
One of our all time most popular posts here on Anthropology.net is a 2008 blog post, “Race as a Social …
National Human Genome Research Institute Debates Race
One of the pieces to appear in the latest Science is Constance Holden’s synopsis of the core issues discussed at …
SLC45A2/MATP & The Genetics Of Human Hair Color
Earlier this year, I wrote a massive summary on the genetics of pigmentation for one of my graduate courses. I …
Higher Rates of C-Section Deliveries For Asian Mothers & White Fathers
What you may call the hip or pelvis is actually formed by the joining of ilia, ischia, pubis bones to …
Race As A Social Construct
As Ruth Frankenberg in her book The Social Construction of Whiteness: White Women, Race Matters argues, our daily lives are …
Mark Stoneking’s Four Models Of Human Origins
Mark Stoneking is a population geneticist at the Max Planck anthropology powerhouse. He uses genetics to study the origin, relationships, …
The Concept of Race
Introduction Before I dive into the concept of race, I just want to thank Kambiz for this opportunity to broaden …
Two new studies on exploring methods to study the structure of the human genome
Two similar papers published the latest issues of Nature and Genome Research do high-resolution analyses of the structure of the …
