Teaching human variation issues, trends and challenges / Goran Štrkalj, editor.

Other author Štrkalj, Goran.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Nova Science Publishers,
Descriptionxx, 152 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Physical anthropology--Study and teaching.
Human genetics--Variation.
Anthropology, Physical--education.
Continental Population Groups--classification.
Racial Groups--genetics.
Evolution.
Genetic Variation.
Prejudice.

Contents Foreword : random thoughts on teaching human variation, past and present / Phillip V. Tobias -- Human variation : the major unifying theme of biological anthropology / Darren Curno -- Racial identification of single skulls in forensic cases : when myth becomes reality / Alan G. Morris -- Human variation is not easy to understand : thirty years of teaching biological anthropology at four continents / Maciej Henneberg -- Race and geographic variation conflated : an impediment to teaching human biology / Rachel Caspari -- An in-class exercise on human variation / Patricia C. Rice -- Challenging university students' concepts about race / Pamela Ashmore and Donna Hart -- Bad old days or anthropology revisited : teaching human variation through the portal of the experimental history of science / Goran Štrkalj -- Should human variation be taught to medical students? / A. Tracey Wilkinson, Goran Strkalj and Muhammad A. Spocter -- Human variation : how to counteract the new waves of racism? / Charles Susanne.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009044354
ISBN9781608766161 (hardcover)
ISBNebook

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