What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and their Genes - Softcover

Marks, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520240642 ISBN 13: 9780520240643

Publisher: University of California Press, 2003

Synopsis

Marks presents the field of molecular anthropology―a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics―as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This iconoclastic, witty, and extremely readable book illuminates the deep background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is, and what passes for it, in modern society.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"In this clever, entertaining, and thoughtful book, Marks lays out some important limitations of science in general and genetics in particular. Using terms that everybody can understand, he demolishes the pretensions of scientists who try to use genetics to answer questions about the kinship of nations, the rights of animals, the racial identity of Kennewick Man, the hereditary Jewish priesthood, and the existence of God. Marks has a lot of fun with all this, and so will his readers."―Matt Cartmill, author of A View to Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History

About the Author:

Jonathan Marks teaches at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995) and coauthor, with Edward Staski, of Evolutionary Anthropology (1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0520240642
• ISBN 13: 9780520240643
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336