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Marks presents the field of molecular anthropology-a synthesis of the holistic approach of anthropology with the reductive approach of molecular genetics-as a way of improving our understanding of the science of human evolution. This iconoclastic, witty, and extremely readable book illuminates the deep background of our place in nature and asks us to think critically about what science is, and what passes for it, in modern society.

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C. P. SNOW, WHO WAS BOTH a scientist and a novelist, observed in a classic essay from the 1950s that the sciences and the humanities were coming apart at their academic seams and forming "two cultures."

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"In this clever, entertaining, and thoughtful book, Marks lays out some important limitations of science in general and genetics in particular. Using terms that everybody can understand, he demolishes the pretensions of scientists who try to use genetics to answer questions about the kinship of nations, the rights of animals, the racial identity of Kennewick Man, the hereditary Jewish priesthood, and the existence of God. Marks has a lot of fun with all this, and so will his readers."--Matt Cartmill, author of A View to Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History

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  • Title What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes
  • Author Jonathan Marks
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003-11-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520240643 / 0520240642
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.88 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.24 cm)
  • Reading level 1250
  • Category Archaeology / Anthropology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001007085
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.935

About the author

Jonathan Marks teaches at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995) and coauthor, with Edward Staski, of Evolutionary Anthropology (1992).
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