Millstein, Roberta L. (2015) Thinking about populations and races in time. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 52. pp. 5-11. ISSN 1369-8486
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Abstract
Biologists and philosophers have offered differing concepts of biological race. That is, they have offered different candidates for what a biological correlate of race might be; for example, races might be subspecies, clades, lineages, ecotypes, or genetic clusters. One thing that is striking about each of these proposals is that they all depend on a concept of population. Indeed, some authors have explicitly characterized races in terms of populations. However, including the concept of population into concepts of race raises three puzzles, all having to do with time. In this paper, I extend the causal interactionist population concept (CIPC) by introducing some simple assumptions about how to understand populations through time. These assumptions help to shed light on the three puzzles, and in the process show that if we want to understand races in terms of populations, we will need to revise our concept(s) of race.
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Keywords: | races, populations, Lisa Gannett, causal interactionist population concept, genomics, structure | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Roberta L. Millstein | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2016 14:58 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2016 14:58 | ||||||
Item ID: | 12061 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||
Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S... | ||||||
DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.001 | ||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory |
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Date: | August 2015 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 5-11 | ||||||
Volume: | 52 | ||||||
ISSN: | 1369-8486 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12061 |
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