The fallacy of Human biological race concept
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G. Biondi [1] ; O. Rickards [2]
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[1] Universitá di Torino
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[2] Universitá di Roma
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- Localización: Investigaciones en biodiversidad humana / Tito A. Varela (aut.), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (aut.), 2000, ISBN 84-8121-823-5, págs. 840-844
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The existence of races was considered the basic postulate of physical anthropology instead of just an hypothesis amenable to empirical investigation, and for about two centuries physical anthropologists refuted to be led by the only criterion of truth that natural sciences recognize: The empírical validation.Three main constrains, two external and one internal of scientific process, contributed to that serious error of scientific logic. First, the history of the cultural context from which physical anthropology originated. Second, the historical and social context in which physical anthropologists formulated the race concept. Third, the broad process of construction of theories within biological sciences. As many decades of scientific researches have demonstrated, race concept must be rejected for it is scientifically misleading in evaluating human biological variability.
