BSCI 222 Lecture 15: BSCI 189I Y Chromosome Notes

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Biological Sciences Program
• Course: BSCI 222
• Professor: Dr.Presson

Document Summary

Race *on exam: race is a category, african, white, asian, hispanic, black, american indian, race implies differences between groups and correlations among traits, but data do not support this, racial categories are limiting- cannot readily characterize human diversity. Race does not articulate genetic relationships: race does not deal with mixed ancestry, which everyone is at some level, race concept does not deal well with finer distinctions in human groups, such as germans vs italians. Forced african slave migrations to the americas.