Concept information
Preferred term
human variation
Definition
- Human variation, historically a topic of much opinion, debate, and fallacy, is ruled today by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technology that was absent from early classification systems. Before the onset of European exploration in the late 15th century, it was believed that humans were descended from a single pair and should not be placed into different categories as other animals were. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Human Variation]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/human_variation
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