Description: Genetic Crossroads : The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity, Hardcover by Burton, Elise K., ISBN 1503611914, ISBN-13 9781503611917, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 regions 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 : The Middle East and the Science of Human Her
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Name: Genetic Crossroads : the Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Ethnic Studies / General, History, Life Sciences / Biology, Middle East / General
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.7 Oz
Author: Elise K. Burton
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
