Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race”

Biological Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 401-412

  Kaplan, Jonathan Michael ^a   Winther, Rasmus Grønfeldt ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological ontology; Differentiation; Diversity; Models; Population genetics; Populations; Race; Reification; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85133825310     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0     Document Type: Article

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