Alan Goodman
Biological Anthropologist
Alan Goodman is currently (2019) Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College, and co-editor of Genetic Nature / Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Cultural Divide and Building a New Bio-Cultural Synthesis.
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What role should race play in health research and medicine?
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Is there a gene that controls for skin color?
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Are there distinct traits or characteristics of each race?
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Why do people who need organ and bone marrow transplants tend to match more with people of the same ethnic or racial background?
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Does the series suggest there are no genetic differences between populations?
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How do forensics investigators determine a person's race from their DNA?
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Aren't Black people on the whole the best athletes in the world?
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How do you explain varying levels of success and achievement by race?
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Aren't racial differences hard wired?
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interview
Alan Goodman
What are our assumptions about biology and race? What's the difference between looking at race as a social idea and a scientific one? What other explanations exist for why we look different?
Alan Goodman is currently (2019) Professor of Biological Anthropology at Hampshire College, and co-editor of Genetic Nature / Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Cultural Divide and Building a New Bio-Cultural Synthesis.
