Teaching Human Variation : Issues, Trends and Challenges.

Intro -- TEACHING HUMAN VARIATION: ISSUES, TRENDS AND CHALLENGES -- TEACHING HUMAN VARIATION: ISSUES, TRENDS AND CHALLENGES -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON TEACHING HUMAN VARIATION, PAST AND PRESENT -- THE MEANING OF THE TERM SECULAR TREND -- CHARACTERISTICS THAT SHOW A SECULAR TREND -- THE CAUSES OF THE SECULAR TREND -- WAR AND THE SECULAR TREND IN MODERN HUMAN POPULATIONS -- SECULARISM AND EVOLUTION: A NEW HYPOTHESIS -- REFERENCES -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 1 HUMAN VARIATION: THE MAJOR UNIFYING THEME OF BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME HISTORICAL THEMES -- CONTEMPORARY IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN VARIATION -- Example from Palaeoanthropology -- RELEVANCE OF TEACHING VARIATION -- A BROADER CURRICULUM -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 RACIAL IDENTIFICATION OF SINGLE SKULLS IN FORENSIC CASES: WHEN MYTH BECOMES REALITY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STATISTICAL IDENTIFICATION OF RACE USING CRANIAL MORPHOLOGY -- RACIAL VARIATION AND FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION IN SOUTH AFRICA -- A CASE STUDY: THE COBERN STREET BURIALS -- LESSONS FOR FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF SINGLE SKULLS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 THE ILLUSIVE CONCEPT OF HUMAN VARIATION: THIRTY YEARS OF TEACHING BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ON FOUR CONTINENTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PATTERN OF LEARNING ABOUT HUMAN VARIATION -- TEACHING BIOLOGICAL VARIATION IN HUMANS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 RACE AND GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION CONFLATED: AN IMPEDIMENT TO TEACHING HUMAN BIOLOGY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THREE ATTRIBUTES OF RACE: ESSENTIALISM, BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM AND ISOLATION -- THE STUDY OF HUMAN VARIATION: UNDERMINING RACIAL ASSUMPTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 AN IN-CLASS EXERCISE ON HUMAN VARIATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CLASS EXERCISE -- PREPARATION.

The Potential Traits -- (I) Simple Mendelian Traits (M traits) -- (II) Continuous Variation Traits (C Traits) -- DAY ONE: DATA COLLECTION (50 MINUTES) -- DAY TWO: TURNING RAW, INDIVIDUAL DATA INTO MEANINGFUL GROUP DATA - 50 MINUTES -- DAY THREE: LOOKING AT DATA: 50 MINUTES -- CONTINUING THE EXERCISE: MICROEVOLUTION, POPULATION GENETICS, CAUSES OF EVOLUTION, AND "RACE" - UP TO 3 CLASS SESSIONS -- Microevolution -- Causes of Microevolution and Population Genetics -- "Race" -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 CHALLENGING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' CONCEPTS ABOUT RACE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- RACIAL CLASSIFICATION -- RATIONALE AND DEMAND FOR COURSE -- AN INQUIRY-BASED MODEL -- IMPLEMENTING THE COURSE -- CHANGING IDEAS AND CONCEPTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 THE BAD OLD DAYS OF ANTHROPOLOGY REVISITED: TEACHING HUMAN VARIATION THROUGH THE PORTAL OF THE EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- Experimental History of Science -- Human Variation and "Race" -- Manoiloff -- TEACHING STRATEGY -- PEDAGOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 SHOULD HUMAN VARIATION BE TAUGHT TO MEDICAL STUDENTS? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- "RACE" AND MEDICINE -- HUMAN VARIATION AND MEDICAL STUDENTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 HUMAN VARIATION: HOW TO COUNTERACT THE NEW WAVES OF RACISM? -- ABSTRACT -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- STEREOTYPES PERSIST -- THE HUMAN DIVERSITY -- ECONOMIC RACISM? OR RELIGIOUS RACISM? -- Economic Factors -- Demographic Factors and Migrations -- Religious Factors -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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