Race as a physiosocial phenomenon

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 191-222

  Kendig, Catherine ^a  

^a MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiessentialism; Conceptions of race; Ecological kinds; Embeddedness situatedness; Natural kinds; Preformationism; Racial self ascription; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE; SOCIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84255178004     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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