Human Diversity
by Richard Lewontin
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This text asks the question: are our personalities and capabilities predetermined by our genes? Using tools of population genetics, it argues that biological differences are a small part of what makes individuals unique.Tags
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Richard Lewontin is Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University
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- Human Diversity
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- Science & Nature, Anthropology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 573.21 — Natural sciences & mathematics Biology Specific physiological systems in animals, regional histology and physiology in animals Origin of man
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- QH431 .L4186 — Science Natural history – Biology Biology (General) Genetics
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