Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Distinctio and Enumeratio by Norman Adewole

Straw Men and Their Followers: The return of biological race by Evelynn M. Hammonds Distinctio
  1. “They have characterized those ascribing to the view that race is socially constructed as 'race deniers' –people who refuse to acknowledge what any child can see– that human beings can be lumped together in groups by skin color, hair type, eye shape and color, head shape and body type.”
  2. “In his cautionary tale, he recuperates race as nothing more that a useful heuristic– a useful shorthand– for obvious phenotypic and genetic diversity.”
Enumeratio
  1. “The book generated extensive critiques by historians, social scientists and journalists.”
  2. “[...] imprecise concept for those studying human variation within biology, genetics and medicine.”
A Family Tree in Every Gene by Armand Marie Leroi Distinctio
  1. “To put it more abstractly, human physical variation is correlated; and correlation contains information.
  2. “At a smaller scale, three million Basques do as well; to they are a race as well. Race is merely a shorthand that enables us to speak sensibly, though with no great precision, about genetic rather than cultural or political differences.”
Enumeratio
  1. “Most scientists are thoughtful, liberal-minded and socially aware people.
  2. “But through it, we may be able to write the genetic recipe for the fair hair of a Norwegian, the black-verging-on purple skin of a Solomon Islander, the flat face of an Inuit, and the curved eyelid of a Han Chinese.” 

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