About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 151. Chapters: Race, Definition, Permian-Triassic extinction event, Bacillus, Onychophora, Diabetes insipidus, Missouri River, Climate change, Banded iron formation, Global climate model, List of Ig Nobel Prize winners, Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Mollusca, White-fronted capuchin, Sarcoidosis, Climate change feedback, Gastropoda, Mollusc shell, Overdeepening, Evolutionary history of cephalopods, Ice sheet dynamics, Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, Zinc finger nuclease, Beta amyloid, Coralline algae, Modelling biological systems, Binomial proportion confidence interval, Carbanion, Metallacycle, Distal phalanges, Long-term effects of global warming, Filoviridae, Wheeler Shale, Yao's Millionaires' Problem, Conulariida, Thrombocytosis, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, Sponge spicule, Climactichnites, Fossil record of fire, Ellesmeroceratidae, Phosphatic fossilization, Dps, Evolutionary radiation, Spongiophyton, Cambrorhytium, Volborthellidae, Ottoia, Funisia, Victor Vianu, Clarkoceras, Medical dictionary, Metallodendrimer, Bornean white-bearded gibbon, Plectronoceratoidea, Lobopod gut, Ectenolites, Sphenothallus, Jiagouceras, Paucipodia, Pioche Shale, Junggaria, Byronia, Paleoceras. Excerpt: Race is classification of humans into large and distinct populations or groups by factors such as heritable phenotypic characteristics or geographic ancestry, but also often influenced by and correlated with traits such as appearance, culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. In the early twentieth century the term was often used, in its biological sense, to denote genetically divergent human populations which can be marked by common phenotypic traits. When analyzing skeletal remains, this sense of "race" is still used at times within forensic anthropology, biomedical research, and race-based medicine as prox...
