News – 27 October 2017
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Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say – New York Times
Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say
By Carl Zimmer – MATTER
For centuries, skin color has held powerful social meaning — a defining characteristic of race, and a starting point for racism.
“If you ask somebody on the street, ‘What are the main differences between races?,’ they’re going to say skin color,” said Sarah A. Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania.
On Thursday, Dr. Tishkoff and her colleagues showed this to be a profound error. In the journal Science, the researchers published the first large-scale study of the genetics of skin color in Africans. Continue reading →
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