Race is a thoroughly contentious topic, as one might expectof an idea that intrudes on the everyday life of so many people.The modern concept of race grew out of the experience of Europeansin naming and organizing the populations encountered in therapid expansion of their empires.1 As a way to categorize humans,race has since come to take on a wide range of meanings, mixingsocial and biologic ingredients in varied proportions. Thisplasticity has made it a tool that fits equally well in thehands of demagogues who want to justify genocide and eugenicsand of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Ill. (R.S.C.); the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill (J.S.K.); and the Department of Biological Anthropology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom (R.W.).
This article is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ryk Ward, whose contributions to the genetics community will long be remembered.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Cooper at the Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153, or at rcooper@lumc.edu.
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Williams S. M., Templeton A. R., Swallen K. C., Cooper R. S., Kaufman J. S.
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