Are ethnic groups biological "species" to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories

Current Anthropology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 515-554

  Gil White, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3596550     Document Type: Article

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