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Brian M. Donovan, PhD, Research Scientist, BSCS Science Learning
Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Natalie Pino, BA - National Human Genome Research Institute
Natural and social scientists differ in their conceptualization and use of race at a critical moment
In a recent contribution to the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, Jada Benn Torres reviews the “race-as-biology” paradigms that were promulgated early in the discipline and tracks the emergence of the anti-racist stance in contemporary biological anthropology. Upholding this stance, Benn Torres argues, means making a proactive effort to shape scholarly and public narratives about human difference.
