Human Biodiversity

Jonathan Marks is a professor of anthropology, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He earned his M.S. in genetics, and M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Arizona, and has conducted postdoctoral research in genetics at the University of California at Davis. Mark's work on "molecular anthropology" has been widely published in professional journals.

Acknowledgments, 1. THE HIERARCHY, 2. PROCESSES AND PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES, 3. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF HUMAN VARIATION, 4. THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY AND THE BIOLOGY OF HISTORY, 5. THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT, 6. RACIAL AND RACIST ANTHROPOLOGY, 7. PATTERNS OF VARIATION IN HUMAN POPULATIONS, 8. HUMAN MOLECULAR AND MICROEVOLUTIONARY GENETICS, 9. HUMAN DIVERSITY IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN GENETICS, 10. THE ADAPTIVE NATURE OF HUMAN VARIATION, 11. HEALTH AND HUMAN POPULATIONS, 12. HUMAN TRAITS: HERITAGE OR HABITUS?, 13. GENETICS AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 14. CONCLUSIONS, Appendix: DNA Structure and Function, Index