Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race”
Abstract
It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race” off of biological theory or data. Indeed, the technical meaning of “genetic variation” is fluid, and there is no single theoretical agreed-upon criterion for defining and distinguishing populations given a particular set of genetic variation data. By analyzing three formal senses of “genetic variation,” viz., diversity, differentiation, and heterozygosity, we argue that the use of biological...
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Title
Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race”
Published Date
Jul 20, 2012
Journal
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
401 - 412
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