Race
Subtitle: the reality of human differences
By: Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele.
Contributors: Miele, Frank.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Race; Physical anthropology; Human population genetics
Description: "When the head of the Human Genome Project and a former President of the United States both assure us that we are all, regardless of race, genetically 99.9% the same, the clear implication is that racial differences among us are superficial. The concept of race, many would argue, is an inadequate map of the physical reality of human variation.

In short, human races are not biologically valid categories, and the very ideas of race and racial differences are morally suspect in that they support racism." "In Race, Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele marshall evidence from history, law, psychology, and genetics that argues against the received media and academic wisdom."--Jacket.
Notes: "A Member of the Perseus Books Group."
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Opening statement: The case for race; title: Race and the law; title: Race and history; title: Anthropology as the science of race; title: Resolving the primate tree; title: Homo sapiens and its races; title: The two "miracles" that made humankind; title: Race and physical differences; title: Race and behavior; title: Learning to live with race.