2012 still-prevalent view that every bit of an organism's DNA has a specific function crafted
by selection. Thus, both papers promoted Dawkins' concept of “selfish DNA”—the notion that …

Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological
anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist …

Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise
troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to …

Although we often date the conflict of “molecules and morphology” in biological
anthropology to the 1962 Wenner-Gren conference “Classification and Human Evolution,” …

Genomics' impact on crop production continuously expands. The number of sequenced
plant and microbial species and strains representing diverse populations of individual …

ELSI is not a guarantee that all is well in the Genome Project, that all moral problems will be
neatly anticipated, dissected, and managed. It is ludicrous to think that a handful of scholars …

Being derived from the hereditary material, molecular genetic data are often assumed to be
a source of sounder inferences about evolution than data from other kinds of investigations …

“Molecular anthropology” was coined by a biochemist, Emile Zuckerkandl, 1 at an
anthropological conference in 1962 sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, called …

В 2020 году исполнилось 100 лет термину «геном», предложенному немецким
ботаником Г. Винклером при описании партеногенеза в растительном и животном …

The study of genetic variation in the human species cannot be undertaken outside the
cultural, political and historical context within which scientific research has been traditionally …