Rehabilitating a biological notion of race? A response to Sesardic

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 469-473

  Taylor, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Biomedicine; Cluster analysis; Genetic variation; IQ scores; Phylogenetics; Race

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; KNOWLEDGE; PHYLOGENETICS; RACE;

EID: 79956334584     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-011-9249-3     Document Type: Article

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