Jonathan Marks
Molecular Anthropologist
Jonathan Marks is currently (2019) Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Tales of the ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution, and Human Biodiversity and What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee.
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What role should race play in health research and medicine?
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Is there a gene that controls for skin color?
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Are there distinct traits or characteristics of each race?
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Why do people who need organ and bone marrow transplants tend to match more with people of the same ethnic or racial background?
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Does the series suggest there are no genetic differences between populations?
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Does mitochondrial DNA change over time?
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When looking for genetic variation, does it make a difference to look at "coding" parts of the genome as opposed to "non-coding"?
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How do forensics investigators determine a person's race from their DNA?
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Are sickle cell and Tay-Sachs racial diseases?
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How do you explain 98% genetic similarity but huge phenotypic variation?
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How are subjects selected for drug studies by race?
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Aren't Black people on the whole the best athletes in the world?
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What can a person's DNA tell you about historical migrations and genetic ancestry?
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How do you explain varying levels of success and achievement by race?
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Aren't racial differences hard wired?
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interview
Jonathan Marks
Why doesn't it make sense to classify people into races? How do we sort through all our confusion about genetics, biology and things like athletic ability? Where did our traditional notions of race come from?
Jonathan Marks is currently (2019) Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Tales of the ex-Apes: How We Think About Human Evolution, and Human Biodiversity and What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee.
