ABSTRACT
Recently, this has culminated in a special edition of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (“Race Reconciled?” 2009), which reported the ˜ndings of a special symposium held in 2007 at the University of New Mexico, the aim of which was to ˜nd common ground in the debate among biological anthropologists; this symposium provides a
Introduction 119 Race and the Human Genome 121 Race: Is It a Problem of Semantics? 125 Practicality 127 Ancestry and Craniometry 128 Postcranial Skeleton 132 Conclusion 134 References 135 Bibliography 139
General References 139 Race and Ancestry Assessment: Cranial Skeleton (Including Dentition) 144 Race and Ancestry Assessment: Postcranial Skeleton 146 Population Genetics and DNA 147 Biomedical Aspects of Race 152
clear case example of why the debate is ongoing and why this discussion is necessary. Participants were asked to address a number of questions, all central to the race debate: What is race? What is the relationship between race and the structure of human biological variation? What speci˜c data methods can be used to investigate this variation, and what are the implications of our understanding of race to research topics such as human evolution, population history, disease expression and management, forensic human identi˜cation, and the synthesis of cultural, linguistic, and biological anthropology?
