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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Hierarchy | |
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| Pattern and Process | |
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| The Pattern: Linnaeus | |
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| The Opposition: Buffon | |
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| The Process: Lamarck | |
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| The Synthesis: Darwin | |
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| The Place of Humans in Nature | |
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| Anchoring the Emergence of Humans | |
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| The Great Chain in Cultural Evolution | |
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| Emergence of the Modern Culture Theory | |
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| Change without Progress: The Biological and Social History of the Human Species | |
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| Processes and Patterns in the Evolutionary History of Our Species | |
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| Narrative as a Scientific Medium | |
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| Adaptation Stories | |
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| Disturbing the Conservative Nature of Heredity | |
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| Reproduction of Organisms: Meiosis | |
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| Reproduction of Populations: The Gene Pool | |
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| Microevolutionary Processes | |
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| Macroevolutionary Processes | |
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| Evolutionary Narratives | |
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| Human Macroevolution | |
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| Linking Data into Histories | |
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| Patterns in the Evolution of Species and Culture | |
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| Physical Anthropology as the Study of Human Variation | |
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| The History of Biology and the Biology of History | |
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| History as Inborn Propensities: Arthur de Gobineau | |
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| History, Biology, and the Theory of Progress | |
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| Social Selection: Biological Progress as Social Progress | |
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| Survival of the Fittest: Parallel Progressive Processes | |
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| Competition of a Different Sort: Progress in History without Biology | |
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| Divorce of Race and Culture: Progress as an Illusion | |
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| The Culture Concept Nudges Out the Race Concept | |
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| The Eugenics Movement | |
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| A Simple Plan for Making Life Better | |
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| Mendelism in Eugenics | |
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| American Eugenics: The Peril of the Huddled Masses | |
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| Eugenics: Science and Pseudoscience | |
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| Eugenics in National Socialist Germany | |
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| Why Eugenics Failed | |
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| Lessons for Our Time | |
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| Racial and Racist Anthropology | |
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| Racism and Eugenics | |
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| Human Diversity | |
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| Racist Studies | |
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| Racial Studies | |
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| What do Differences among Human Groups Represent? | |
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| Performance and Ability | |
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| Race as a Social Construct | |
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| The Linnaean and Buffonian Frameworks | |
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| Patterns of Variation in Human Populations | |
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| The Phenotype in Racial Studies | |
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| Developmental Plasticity: The Skull in Racial Studies | |
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| Genetics and the Human Races | |
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| Blood Group Allele Frequencies in Populations | |
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| Genetics of the Human Species | |
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| Human Molecular and Microevolutionary Genetics | |
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| Genes and Proteins | |
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| The Genome | |
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| Hemoglobin | |
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| Genome Structure and Evolution in the Globin Genes | |
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| The Comparison of Genetic Regions | |
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| Hemoglobin Variation in the Human Species | |
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| Thalassemia | |
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| Genetic Screening | |
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| Modern Eugenics | |
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| Hereditarianism | |
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| Human Diversity in the Light of Modern Genetics | |
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| Differences among the "Three Races" | |
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| The Social Nature of Geographical Categories | |
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| Patterns of Genetic Differentiation | |
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| Mitochondrial Eve | |
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| Patterns of Genetic Diversity | |
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| The Genetics of Individuality | |
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| The Human Genome Project | |
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| Who Is Related to Whom? | |
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| The Adaptive Nature of Human Variation | |
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| Patterns of Gene Flow | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Genetic Adaptation | |
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| Human Variation as Phenotype Adaptation | |
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| Nutritional Variation | |
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| Uniquenesses of Human Adaptation | |
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| Cultural Selection | |
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| Culture as a Social Marker | |
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| Health and Human Populations | |
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| Demographic Transitions | |
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| Demography versus Eugenics | |
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| Economics and Biology | |
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| The Cultural Nature of Disease | |
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| Ethnic Diseases | |
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| Culture and Biology: AIDS | |
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| Culture as Technological Fix | |
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| Human Traits: Heritage or Habitus? | |
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| Aesop and Darwin | |
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| Sex and the Single Fruitfly | |
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| Rape as Heritage or Habitus | |
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| Proximate and Ultimate Cause in Biology | |
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| The Asphalt Jungle | |
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| Human Behavior as Heritage | |
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| Genetics and the Evolution of Human Behavior | |
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| On the Number of Michael Jordans in the Known Universe | |
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| Comparing Groups of People | |
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| Where Are the Great Jewish Boxers? | |
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| How do we Establish the Genetic Base of a Behavior? | |
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| The Genetics of Deviance | |
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| The Hereditarian Jumble | |
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| The Genetic Basis of Sexual Deviance | |
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| Genetic Behavior: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | |
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| Platonism and the Search for Human Nature | |
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| Was Hammerstein Wrong? | |
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| Race, Xenophobia, and Lessons of History | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Appendix: DNA Structure and Function | |
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| Index | |