Science and Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Marks (0000-0002-2594-7191, Yale University) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-133 |
| Publication date | 1996-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764296040002003 |
| OpenAlex | W2058549360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 24 |
The scientific study of human biological variation has consistently produced knowledge that contradicts widespread popular, or folk, wisdom. Although people and the populations they belong to certainly differ from one another, they do not appear to do so in such a manner that permits the identification of a small number of human subspecies or races. Classification of people into races involves cultural, not biological, knowledge; and race is inherited according to cultural rules that stand in opposition to biology. Thus race is not a useful biological concept. To understand whether differences exist between populations in cognitive ability (or any other inherent "gifts") requires confronting the limits of scientific knowledge
Biology · Cognition · Epistemology · Identification (biology) · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Subspecies · Variation (astronomy) · Ecology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society
Deconstructing racial essentialism in the classroom
The Beliefs About Race Scale (Bars)
Implicit and Explicit Racial Attitudes Changed During Black Lives Matter
What Do We Mean by “Ethnicity” and “Race”? A Consensual Qualitative Research Investigation of Colloquial Understandings
Does Social Constructionist Curricula Both Decrease Essentialist and Increase Nominalist Beliefs About Race
Must Introductory Genetics Start with Mendel
Biocultural and social determinants of ill health and early mortality in a New Mexican paediatric autopsy sample
Sharing uncertainty
The effect of experts on attitude change in public-facing political science
A Reexamination of Ontario's Science Curriculum
Reflections on methods to estimate race and ancestry on reference osteological samples in the Brazilian context
From “Lists of Traits” to “Open-Mindedness”
Race, multiculturalisms and the role of science in teaching diversity
Race and Criminology in the Age of Genomic Science
Sociocultural determinants of health and wealth in historic African Americans
Keeping-While-Giving-Back
"Forensic Identification of "Race
Dimensions of Racial Essentialism and Racial Nominalism
Belief in Race as Biological
The leopard's spots
The DNA Mystique
Human Biological Adaptability
Europe and the people without history
The Kallikak Family
Race
Man’S Most Dangerous Myth
Migration and Environment
The paradox of human population genetics at the end of the twentieth century
The Passing of the Great Race
Forensic anthropology and the concept of race
Migration and Environment
The Leopard's Spots
The Race Question in Modern Science
Man's Most Dangerous Myth
Environment and Human Plasticity
Changes in the Bodily Form of Descendants of Immigrants
On the Non-Existence of Human Races
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |