Rehabilitating a biological notion of race? A response to Sesardic

Biology and Philosophy 26 (3):469-473 (2011)
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The point Sesardic (Biol Philos 25: 143–162, 2010) makes about the possibility of distinguishing groups for which there is a lot of within-group variation is not sufficient to rehabilitate a biological concept of race. In this note, I sketch a number of issues that quickly arise once we delve more deeply into the relevant scientific knowledge, concepts, methods, and questions for inquiry

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Race: A Social Destruction of a Biological Concept.Neven Sesardic - 2010 - Biology and Philosophy 25 (2):143-162.
Making Sense of Heritability.Neven Sesardic - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
NEVEN SESARDICMaking Sense of Heritability. [REVIEW]Neven Sesardic - 2007 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 58 (3):619-623.

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