Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1945-. LOCATION: Green Library
Stacks GN60.Y4 (Latest three years in IC) regulary publishes relevant reviews.
- "Melanin, Afrocentricity...," 36(1993):33-58.
- "Clines and Clusters vs Race: a test in Ancient Egypt and the cause
of Death on the Nile," 36(1993):1-31.
In addition to Shanklin's Anthropology and Race, other works useful
for a historical perspective include:
- Spencer, Frank. 1986. Ecce Homo. LOCATION: IC Z5118.S7S64 1986.
Extensive notes and references on such topics as comparative (racial)
biology, craniology, and human population biology.
- Boas, Franz. 1934. "Race," Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences.
XIII-XIV:25-36. LOCATION: IC H41.E5.
- Harris, Marvin. 1968. "Race," International Encyclopedia of the Social
Sciences.13:263-269. LOCATION: IC H41.I5.
- United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910). Dictionary of
races or peoples. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1911. LOCATION:
SSRC GN11.U6
- Stephens, Thomas M. Dictionary of Latin American racial and ethnic
terminology. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, c1989.LOCATION:
IC GN564.L29S84 1989.
The nature-nurture debate seems neither capable of being won nor lost.
For every article claiming either "nature" or "nurture" has won [e.g., D.
Koshland (1987) "Nature, nurture and behavior," Science 235:1445]
there is soon a response [J. Horgan (1993) "Trends in behavioral genetics:
eugenics revisited" Scientific American 268:122-131] that shows the
earlier opinion was either based on flawed evidence or flawed methodology.
Reviews of research include Richard Rose's (1995) "Genes and human behavior"
Annual Review of Psychology 46:625-54 and D. Wahlsten's "Single-gene
influences on brain and behavior" Annual Review of Psychology
50:599-624. Steven Jay Gould says, "no issue could be more prominent for
an evolutionary biologist, or more central to a broad range of political
questions, than genetic versus environmental sources of human abilities
and behaviors." Read his Dolly's Fashion and Louis's Passion" in Natural
History, vol. 106, June 1977, n.5, p.18+.
There are a growing number of books and articles
dealing with evolutionary psychology (the current formulation of sociobiology),
and many reviews (check MAGS)
of key works as Matt Ridley (1994) The Red Queen: sex and the evolution
of human nature, and Robert Wright (1994) The moral animal: the new
science of evolutionary psychology. For a critique of evolutionary psychology
see John Horgan (1993) "The new social darwinists. (evolutionary psychologists)"
in Scientific American 273:174-182. (Abstract
from MAGS). The controversial book by Herrnstein and Murray The
bell curve: intelligence and class structure in American life (
New York: Free Press, c1994) has a book published about
it and its fallout, and psychologist J. Philippe Rushton is at the center
of a continuing, bitter controversy over race and intelligence: "J.
Philippe Rushton Riles Colleagues and Publisher with Booklet on Race and
Intelligence," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 14, 2000.
(Fulltext of this and other related articles in Academic
Universe for SU).
From Anthropology there is the development of Evolutionary culture
theory (ECT), a "growing corpus of principles and arguments that attempt
to explain the "descent and modification" of human cultural systems." See
William Durham (1992) "Applications of Evolutionary Culture Theory" Annual
Review of Anthropology 21:331-55. For a comparison of evolutionary anthropologists
and evolutionary psychologists, see Khalil (1995) "Individual separateness
or universal scheme? A note on neo-Darwinian vs. non-Darwinian evolutionary
social science" Human Nature 6(1):91-94.
The Human
Genome, Science 291 (16 Feb 2001):Special Issue.
"DNA
Studies Challenge the Meaning of Race" (SU users) Science
282 (23 Oct 1998): 654-655.
"The
Legal, Ethical, and Social Implications in Human Genome Research" (SU
users) ARA (1998): 473-502.
The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) assumes understanding the variation
of living populations can provide insight into evolutionary processes and
the pattern of past population expansions and migrations. A reference publication
arising from work coming out of the HDGP is Luigi Cavalli-Sforza's
The History and Geography of Human Genes, 1994.(3).
John Relethford's review states:
Overall, this book has an immense amount of information, ranging
from data tables to maps to results of the authors' analyses. It is definitely
the place to start in any study of human population genetics. I recommend
this book to all researchers in the field, but I do have some complaints.
Throughout the book the authors use the term "physical anthropology" to
refer almost exclusively to anthropometrics, anthroposcopics, and skin color.
In each chapter, when the "physical anthropology" of a region is reviewed,
it is in these terms (including previous "racial" classifications). This
outdated usage tends to convey the image that physical or biological anthropologists
are not interested in genetics (although many of the data references are
to biological anthropology journals and to studies conducted by biological
anthropologists).(4)
For a negative assessment of the HGDP undertaking see Goodman's
chapter on this topic. There is a collection of critical articles available
from the NativeNet: Human
Genome Diversity Project articles from NATIVE-L. Also see the comment
by Wheeler, "A Worldwide Effort to Collect DNA Encounters Opposition," in
The Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 27, 1996):A20.
The library subject heading is: Human Genome Project.
Web resources: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/histscilinks.html
Notes
(1) Jonathon Marks (1995) The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science
(book review) Nature 113:337. If this assertion is indeed true, it
may be that anthropological rhetoric plays a role in the alleged neglect.
(2) Allan Goodman. 1995. The Problematics of "Race" in Contemporary Biological
Anthropology. In Biological Anthropology: The State of the Science:
p.232.
(3) Cavalli-Sforza, L. L.. The History and Geography of Human Genes,
1994. LOCATION: Green Lib. Ref (on order); Biology Ref QH431.C395; Meyer
QH431.C395; Green Library Stacks QH431.C395.
(4) Relethford, John H.(1995) "The History and Geography of Human Genes."
(book review). Human Biology 67:673-678.
(4) "Natural selection theory plays a major role
in social science research, as indicated by the growth of the Human Behavior
and Evolution Society (HBES). Some HBES members eschew the term sociobiology,
but others continue to use it. HBES members' theories on mate selection,
language, and docility are examined." John Horgan (1973) The new social
darwinists. (evolutionary psychologists) Scientific American 273:174-182.
(5) Recent Books. Checkout the subject headings, icluding
"Nature and nurture":
- The Adapted mind : evolutionary psychology and the generation of
culture. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992. 666 p.
LOCATION: Green Library Stacks BF711.A33 1992 TOPICS: Genetic psychology.
Cognition and culture. Behavior evolution. Sociobiology.
- Wright, Robert. The moral animal: the new science of evolutionary
psychology. 1st ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c1994.LOCATION:
Green Library Stacks GN365.3.W75 1994. TOPICS: Sociobiology. Genetic
psychology. Human behavior. Behavior evolution.
- Ridley, Matt. The Red Queen: sex and the evolution of human nature.
New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994. LOCATION: Green Library
Stacks GN365.9.R53 1994. TOPICS: Human evolution. Social evolution.
Sex.
- The bell curve wars: race, intelligence, and the future
of America. New York: BasicBooks, c1995. vi, 216 p. ; 21 cm. LOCATION:
BF431.B3749 1995; Education BF431.B3749 1995. TOPICS: Intellect.
Nature and nurture.
Genetics
of Modern Human Origins and Diversity (1998). (SU Users)
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