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Genetic Crossroads - 9781503611917

Description: Genetic CrossroadsThe Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity Author(s): Elise K. Burton Format: Hardback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9781503611917, 978-1503611917 Synopsis The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history?as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind?was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.

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Book Title: Genetic Crossroads

Item Height: 229 mm

Item Width: 152 mm

Author: Elise K. Burton

Publication Name: Genetic Crossroads: the Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Subject: Social Sciences, Science, History

Publication Year: 2021

Type: Textbook

Number of Pages: 400 Pages

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