The beautiful skull and Blumenbach’s errors: The birth of the scientific concept of race

BMJ

Volumn 335, Issue 7633, 2007, Pages 1308-

  Bhopal, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRALAZINE PLUS ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE;

DRUG RESPONSE; ERROR; ETHNICITY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SCIENTIST; SHORT SURVEY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKULL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ALTRUISM; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; SKULL;

EID: 85007736329     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39413.463958.80     Document Type: Article

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