Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics

Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics

Controversies over race conceptualizations have been ongoing for centuries and have been shaped, in part, by anthropologists. OBJECTIVE To assess anthropologists' views on race, genetics, and ancestry. METHODS In 2012 a broad national survey of anthropologists examined prevailing views on race, ancestry, and genetics. RESULTS Results demonstrate consensus that there are no human biologica...

Intelligence, race, and genetics.

In this article, the authors argue that the overwhelming portion of the literature on intelligence, race, and genetics is based on folk taxonomies rather than scientific analysis. They suggest that because theorists of intelligence disagree as to what it is, any consideration of its relationships to other constructs must be tentative at best. They further argue that race is a social constructio...

Race, Genetics and Medicine

Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil

In the contemporary world, “race” narratives are so multifaceted that at times, different views of the concept appear mutually incompatible. In recent decades biologists, especially geneticists, have repeatedly stated that the notion of race does not apply to the human species. On the other hand, social scientists claim that race is highly significant in cultural, historical, and socioeconomic ...

Choosing race: Multiracial ancestry and identification

Social scientists have become increasingly interested in the racial identification choices of multiracial individuals, partly as a result of the federal government’s new “check all that apply” method of racial identification. However, the majority of work to date has narrowly defined the population of multiracial individuals as the “biracial” children of single-race parents. In this article, we...