Diversité et histoire humaines
Langaney André. ? Human Diversity and History. It has for long been a major interest of anthropologists to re-create the history of human races. Rival scholars have put forward many inconsistent reconstructions of this history, basing their theories first on description and measurement of visible physical characteristics and later on immunological and genetic studies. Consideration of the biométrie, morphological or molecular features shows that most are not sufficient to supply reliable, unbiased information on the history of populations; each of them tends to follow its own laws of development. A scrutiny of actual populations and a consideration of the geographical and demographic conditions of human evolution make the simplistic models which are often put forward look derisory; more especially, theories based on a series of successive dichotomies leading to divergencies For at least 200,000 years, human populations have spread continuously in time and space, showing considerable local differences on the various characteristics which we are considering. If this is so, any analysis of human diversity can at best be partial or local, and any attempt at an overall historical recreation of human races is out of the question.
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1979
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Authors: | Langaney, André |
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Population (french edition). - Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED). - Vol. 34.1979, 6, p. 985-1006
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Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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