Anthropology and Reductionism Reflections about DNA studies, reductionism and the role of Anthropology
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The announcement of the complete DNA sequencing (Editorial 2005) has raised three orders of questions, which are already b in this forum: a) what makes us humans? Can the distance great apes be so reduced to cancel the peculiar status of Ho event another demonstration of scientific reductionism? c) I anthropology in danger because of the genocentric attitude of The analysis of the relevant scientific, cultural, and philo these new developments produce a solid negative answer to a
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