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Genetic Geographies : The Trouble with Ancestry /

What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nash, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : geography, genetics, kinship
  • Genome geographies : the making of ancestry and origins
  • Mapping the global human family : shared and distinctive descent
  • Our genetic heritage : figuring diversity in national studies
  • Finding the "truths" of sex in geographies of genetic variation
  • Conclusion : degrees of relatedness: "natural" geographies of affinity and belonging.