Kaplan, Jonathan and Pigliucci, Massimo
(2002)
On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans.
[Preprint]
Abstract
Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have gone through great pains to essentially deny the existence of biological human races. We argue that human races, in the biological sense of local populations adapted to particular environments, do in fact exist; such races are best understood through the common ecological concept of ecotypes. However, human ecotypic races do not in general correspond with `folk` racial categories, largely because many similar ecotypes have multiple independent origins. Consequently, while human natural races exist, they have little or nothing in common with `folk` races.
| Item Type: |
Preprint
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| Creators: |
| Creators | Email | ORCID  |
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| Kaplan, Jonathan | | | | Pigliucci, Massimo | | |
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| Keywords: |
Biology, Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, Race |
| Depositing User: |
Program Committee
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Mar 2003 |
| Last Modified: |
07 Oct 2010 15:11 |
| Item ID: |
1078 |
| Date: |
2002 |
| URI: |
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/1078 |
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