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Article
Depicting simultaneously similarity, diversity, ancestry, and admixture?
Working Papers on Science in a Changing World
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-21-2011
Keywords
- ancestry,
- diversity,
- genetics,
- intrepretation,
- race
Disciplines
Abstract
Can any depiction of genetic relationships among humans allow simultaneously for similarity, diversity, ancestry, and admixture (i.e., groups that had split mixing again)? I asked this question while puzzling over the messages conveyed by diagrams from the work of Tishkoff and collaborators on genetic variation among humans in and out of Africa. In this talk I present explorations of alternative depictions of human genetic variation keeping my initial question in mind. By the end I will have prepared the ground for an assertion that the very methodology of generating and depicting human ancestry privileges a racialized view of human diversity.
Community Engaged/Serving
No, this is not community-engaged.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Citation Information
Peter J Taylor. "Depicting simultaneously similarity, diversity, ancestry, and admixture?" (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/peter_taylor/10/
(Some references have been updated since the original 2011 text.)