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Born in 1955, Marks studied at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and took graduate degrees in genetics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, completing his doctorate in 1984.
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior) Paperback - December 31, 1995
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Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution by Jonathan Marks (2015-09-08)
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior)
( Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very he...)
Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies—with a stereotypical humanist answering in the affirmative and a stereotypical scientist answering in the negative. The study of human biology is different from the study of the biology of other species. In the simplest terms, people's lives and welfare may depend upon it, in a sense that they may not depend on the study of other scientific subjects. Where science is used to validate ideas—four out of five scientists preferring a brand of cigarettes or toothpaste—there is a tendency to accept the judgment as authoritative without asking the kinds of questions we might ask of other citizens' pronouncements. In Human Biodiversity, Marks has attempted to distill from a centuries-long debate what has been learned and remains to be learned about the biological differences within and among human groups. His is the first such attempt by an anthropologist in years, for genetics has undermined the fundamental assumptions of racial taxonomy. The history of those assumptions from Linnaeus to the recent past—the history of other, more useful assumptions that derive from Buffon and have reemerged to account for genetic variation—are the poles of Marks's exploration.
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Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution
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What do we think about when we think about human evolution? With his characteristic wit and wisdom, anthropologist Jonathan Marks explores our scientific narrative of human origins—the study of evolution—and examines its cultural elements and theoretical foundations. In the process, he situates human evolution within a general anthropological framework and presents it as a special case of kinship and mythology. Tales of the Ex-Apes argues that human evolution has incorporated the emergence of social relations and cultural histories that are unprecedented in the apes and thus cannot be reduced to purely biological properties and processes. Marks shows that human evolution has involved the transformation from biological to biocultural evolution. Over tens of thousands of years, new social roles—notably spouse, father, in-laws, and grandparents—have co-evolved with new technologies and symbolic meanings to produce the human species, in the absence of significant biological evolution. We are biocultural creatures, Marks argues, fully comprehensible by recourse to neither our real ape ancestry nor our imaginary cultureless biology.
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Evolutionary Anthropology: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
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The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology, author Jon Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking about the major issues in the field with fourteen original essays designed to correlate to the core chapters in standard textbooks. Each chapter draws on and complements--but does not reconstitute (except for the sake of clarity)--the major data and ideas presented in standard texts. Marks explores such topics as how we make sense of data about our origins, where our modern ideas comes from, our inability to separate natural facts from cultural facts and values as we try to understand ourselves, and the social and political aspects of science as a culturally situated mental activity. Features * Offers clear, intelligent, and completely original discussions-injected with a sense of humor-that will keep students reading * Addresses core topics in a way that does not simply mirror what is in the basic textbooks but offers a new spin, thereby fostering critical thinking * Complements traditional textbooks in biological anthropology and explores connections between biological and general anthropology * Provides expert integration of topics, coherent narratives, and salient examples * Utilizes theme statements at the start of each chapter that introduce the breadth of information covered and engage students in the material
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior) by Jonathan Marks (1995-12-31)
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By Jonathan Marks - The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology (10/25/10)
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History HUMAN BIODIVERSITY: GENES, RACE, AND HISTORY By Marks, Jonathan ( Author )Dec-31-1995 Paperback By Marks, Jonathan ( Author ) Paperback 1995
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Jonathan Marks
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Marks" did post-doctoral research in the genetics department at University of California-Davis from 1984-1987, then taught at Yale for 10 years and Berkeley for 3, before settling in Charlotte where he is now a professor at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Marks published works include many scholarly articles and essays. He is an outspoken critic of scientific racism, and has prominently argued against the idea that "race" is a natural category.
In Marks"s view, "race" is a negotiation between patterns of biological variation and patterns of perceived difference.
Marks is also on the Board of Directors of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Nixon, Nevada.
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Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution
( What do we think about when we think about human evolu...)
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior)
( Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very he...)
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The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology
(In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropolog...)
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Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior) Paperback - December 31, 1995
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution by Jonathan Marks (2015-09-08)
- Evolutionary Anthropology: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology
- Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (Foundations of Human Behavior) by Jonathan Marks (1995-12-31)
- By Jonathan Marks - The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology (10/25/10)
- Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History HUMAN BIODIVERSITY: GENES, RACE, AND HISTORY By Marks, Jonathan ( Author )Dec-31-1995 Paperback By Marks, Jonathan ( Author ) Paperback 1995
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Tales of the Ex-Apes: How We Think about Human Evolution
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