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Philosophy of race meets population genetics.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences - 1 Aug 2015

Spencer Quayshawn

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In this paper, I respond to four common semantic and metaphysical objections that philosophers of race have launched at scholars who interpret recent human genetic clustering results in population genetics as evidence for biological racial realism. I call these objections 'the discreteness object...

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PMID: 25963045
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.04.003

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