Race reconciled?: How biological anthropologists view human variation

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Edgar, Heather J H ^a   Hunley, Keith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); PHENOTYPE; RACE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS;

EID: 66949152232     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20995     Document Type: Editorial

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