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History within : the science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules /
"Personal genomics services now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code--promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may have remained otherwise lost. Such services draw on and contribute to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- History in bones: Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) at the American Museum of Natural History
- From visual memory to "racial soul"
- Paper ancestors or "a word-painting of the scene and of the man or woman"
- The hall of the age of man: the politics of building a site of phylogenetic remembrance
- Creative evolution, or man's struggle up Mount Parnassus
- History within between science and fiction
- History in organisms: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) at the London Zoo and other institutions
- If I were dictator: the modern synthesis, evolutionary humanism, and a superhuman memory
- Evolution in action: the zoo as a site of phylogenetic remembrance
- Scientific humanism in the extended zoo: history within as the basis of democratic reform
- Evolutionary humanism: planned ecology and world heritage management through the Colonial Office, Unesco, IUCN, and WWF
- The ascent of man defended
- History in molecules: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922- ) and the genographic network
- Human history as Brownian motion, or how genetic trees and gene maps draw things together
- Cultural transmission and progress
- The geography of "our heritage": from the human genome diversity project to the genographic project
- The genographic network: science, markets, and genetic narratives
- The genographics of unity in diversity.