Marks presents the field of molecular anthropology—a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics—as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This iconoclastic, witty, and extremely readable book illuminates the deep background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is, and what passes for it, in modern society.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
ONE
MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY
TWO
THE APE IN YOU
THREE
HOW PEOPLE DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER
FOUR
THE MEANING OF HUMAN VARIATION
FIVE
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS
SIX
FOLK HEREDITY
SEVEN
HUMAN NATURE
EIGHT
HUMAN RIGHTS … FOR APES?
NINE
A HUMAN GENE MUSEUM?
TEN
IDENTITY AND DESCENT
ELEVEN
IS BLOOD REALLY SO DAMN THICK?
TWELVE
SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND WORLDVIEW
Notes and Sources
Index
About the author
Jonathan Marks teaches at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995) and coauthor, with Edward Staski, of Evolutionary Anthropology (1992).
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