Teaching human variation
Subtitle: issues, trends and challenges
By: editors, Goran Štrkalj.
Contributors: Štrkalj, Goran.
Publisher: Nova Science; Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781608766161
Subjects: Physical anthropology -- Study and teaching; Human genetics -- Variation; Anthropology, Physical -- education; Continental Population Groups -- classification; Continental Population Groups -- genetics; Evolution; Genetic Variation; Prejudice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword : random thoughts on teaching human variation, past and present / Phillip V. Tobias; title: Human variation : the major unifying theme of biological anthropology / Darren Curno; title: Racial identification of single skulls in forensic cases : when myth becomes reality / Alan G. Morris; title: Human variation is not easy to understand : thirty years of teaching biological anthropology at four continents / Maciej Henneberg; title: Race and geographic variation conflated : an impediment to teaching human biology / Rachel Caspari; title: An in-class exercise on human variation / Patricia C. Rice; title: Challenging university students' concepts about race / Pamela Ashmore and Donna Hart; title: Bad old days or anthropology revisited : teaching human variation through the portal of the experimental history of science / Goran Štrkalj; title: Should human variation be taught to medical students? / A. Tracey Wilkinson, Goran Strkalj and Muhammad A. Spocter; title: Human variation : how to counteract the new waves of racism? / Charles Susanne.