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Race and the Human Genome Project

11/14/2017

 
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In this episode we talk about the interaction of the Human Genome Project with the concept of race and try to explain why this rapidly switched from debunking the biological nature of race to reinforcing the biological nature of race.  As an example of how things went wrong, we talk about the “warrior gene” and super predators. Here are some links that go with this episode:
  1. Human Genome Announcement at the White House (2000)
  2. Rosenberg, Noah A., Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, and Marcus W. Feldman. “Genetic structure of human populations.” Science 298, no. 5602 (2002): 2381-2385.
  3. Wade, Nicholas. “Gene study identifies 5 main human populations, linking them to geography.” New York Times, December 20, 2002, p. A37.​
  4. Wade, Nicholas. “The palette of humankind.” New York Times, December 24, 2002, p. F3.
  5. Robert, L. H. “People are same, but different; humans can be sorted into five groups based on ancestry, major genetic study finds.” Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2002, p. 3B.
  6. Review of Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance in the New York Times.
  7. A copy of the letter that appeared in the New York Times condemning Wade’s use of genomic work in A Troublesome Inheritance.  The fifth signer is Noah Rosenberg, lead author on the 2002 article.
  8. Peterson, Erik L. The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenetics. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.

Morton and Gould--Polygeny side B

11/6/2017

 
In this side B, cut from the last episode, we talk about 20th and 21st century discussions of Morton’s work focusing on the critique by Stephen Jay Gould. As you can hear, we have continuing confusion about this, just as many folks less well versed in the study of race.
Here are some of the relevant citations and links:
  1. Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1981) and Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man: Revised and Expanded, (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996).
  2. Lewis, Jason E., David DeGusta, Marc R. Meyer, Janet M. Monge, Alan E. Mann, and Ralph L. Holloway. “The mismeasure of science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on skulls and bias.” PLoS Biology 9, no. 6 (2011): e1001071.
  3. John Michael’s blog series on the controversy: Stephen Jay Gould and Samuel George Morton: A Personal Commentary
  4. Michael, John S. “A new look at Morton's craniological research.” Current Anthropology 29, no. 2 (1988): 349-354.
  5. Weisberg, Michael. “Remeasuring man.” Evolution & development 16, no. 3 (2014): 166-178.

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