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Genetics, biosocial groups & the future of identity

2006-10-01

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Biosocial' is a new word, but its pedigree, although brief, is the best.Paul Rabinow, the anthropologist of the genome industry, wrote about 'biosociality' in 1992. 1 He invented the word partly as a joke, to counter the sociobiology that had been fashionable for some time.When he wrote, Rabinow was interested in groups and the criteria around which they form.Of course, human beings are biosocial beings: biologica...

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DOI: 10.1162/daed.2006.135.4.81

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