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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2017
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- The Body as a Substrate of Differentiation. Shifting the Focus from Race Science to Life Scientists’ Research on Human Variation Veronika Lipphardt Historia race isolation Human variation This article suggests to focus on the history of human varia- tion instead of focussing on the history of race science. It views the latter as a subset of the former, hence views race science as embedded into the larger field of life scientists’ investigations into human variation. This pa- per explores why human variation is such an attractive and productive object particularly for the life sciences. It proposes that knowledge about human variation is incomplete in a promising way, and that it is of high instrumental value in the life sciences. I briefly illustrate the main points with an exemplary case, namely, population genetic studies of ‘Roma’. 2017 artículo científico 0104-8775 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=384449112006 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3844/384449112006/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3844/384449112006/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3844/384449112006/384449112006.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/3844/384449112006/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3844 Varia Historia application/pdf Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Varia Historia (Brasil) Num.61 Vol.33