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Biological anthropology
About: Biological anthropology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1126 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12757 citations. The topic is also known as: biological anthropology & somatology.
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TL;DR: These integrated approaches of medical genetics and biological anthropology will bring together unity in the discipline of Biomedical Anthropology and emerge as a super specialty in the medical and science world.
Abstract: Anthropology is a common human science with its vast subject matter revolving around knowledge, applications and human surroundings in space and time. Metamorphosis in human life has enforced to widen the traditional vision (wisdom) and scope of particular discipline in terms of applications. In biological terms, heterosis is a process of coming together with another for vigor, virility, vitality and strength. Prudent heterosis means intraand inter-disciplinary approaches to achieve a common goal. This paper over emphasizes the integral approaches of medical genetics and biological anthropology including human genetics in solving the emerging human health problems. These integrated approaches of medical genetics and biological anthropology will bring together unity in the discipline of Biomedical Anthropology and emerge as a super specialty in the medical and science world.
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TL;DR: Ferrie as discussed by the authors analyzed how the question of the northern origins of Berbers (Bertholon) became the problem of the existence of a Mediterranean race (Sergi) and showed how certain cultural invariants could be studied in other than conjectural ways.
Abstract: J.-N. Ferrie — The Birth of the Mediterranean Cultural Zone in the Physical Anthropology of Northern Africa. ; The main idea in the physical anthropology of Northern Africa in the 19th century was that Berbers were a separate people distinct from Arabs and related to European populations on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. It would be erro-neous to suppose that these anthropological taxinomies of race merely came out of the necessities of colonization and had nothing to do with contemporaneous scientific paradigms. By dealing with the diffusionism of genes, anthropological research ended up dealing with cultural diffusionism: race was a sort of infrastruc- ture; and culture, a sort of superstructure. It was also the vestige of northern migrations; but interest in the vestiges of cultural practices and beliefs tended to reverse the diffusionist approach: the diffusionism of genes merely served as a grounds for cultural diffusionism. This reversai is analyzed so as to show how the question of the northern origins of Berbers (Bertholon) became the problem of the existence of a Mediterranean race (Sergi). It is thus shown how certain cultural invariants could be studied in other than conjectural ways (Westermarck).
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