Transparency about human diversity in transnational environmental NGOs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109027
Abstract: Abstract Conservation and/or environmental non-governmental organizations (CE-NGOs) have recently been scrutinized about their leadership's human diversity. Increasing diversity is an ethical obligation for CE-NGOs, and could benefit them by strengthening their problem solving, fundraising, and… read more here.
Keywords: environmental ngos; diversity transnational; transnational environmental; transparency human ... See more keywords
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0405
Abstract: ‘85% of human genetic variation resides within populations’—Richard Lewontin’s result and sound bite, tracing to his 1972 article ‘The apportionment of human diversity’ [1], have become indispensable to descriptions of worldwide human genetic variation. In… read more here.
Keywords: lewontin; human diversity; human genetic; apportionment human ... See more keywords
Diversity and its causes: Lewontin on racism, biological determinism and the adaptationist programme
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0417
Abstract: Lewontin's 1972 paper (RC Lewontin, 1972 The apportionment of human diversity, in Evolutionary biology, vol. 6 (eds T Dobzhansky, MK Hecht, WC Steere), pp. 381–398) can be viewed as one foray in his battle against… read more here.
Keywords: racism; diversity; human diversity; apportionment human ... See more keywords
Explaining the puzzle of human diversity
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DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz3649
Abstract: Centuries of Church exposure promote more individualistic and less conforming psychology One of the biggest puzzles facing the social sciences is understanding our immense cultural variation. Over the past several thousand years, humanity has evolved… read more here.
Keywords: human diversity; variation; puzzle human; explaining puzzle ... See more keywords
Confronting the field: Tylor's Anahuac and Victorian thought on human diversity
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DOI: 10.1177/09526951211069512
Abstract: Victorian anthropologists have been nicknamed ‘armchair anthropologists’. Yet some of them did set foot in the field. Edward Burnett Tylor's first published work, Anahuac, or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern, described his youthful… read more here.
Keywords: mexican society; human diversity; field; tylor ... See more keywords
PARALLELS BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY AND HUMAN DIVERSITY: A MANDATE TO IMPROVE ECOLOGICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH AND VITALITY
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DOI: 10.1638/2022-0081
Abstract: Abstract: The veterinary medical profession—including in marine biology and oceanography, ecology, conservation science, and zoo, wildlife, aquatic, and exotic animal medicine—suffers from a well-known lack of diversity. It is the author's view that in order… read more here.
Keywords: health vitality; diversity; human diversity; biodiversity ... See more keywords
Investigating human diversity in the twenty-first century
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DOI: 10.2478/anre-2020-0024
Abstract: Abstract In recent years, there has been renewed academic and public debate on the topic of race. The present essay compares two books dealing with this subject. Charles Murray’s Human Diversity states that the social… read more here.
Keywords: human diversity; diversity; twenty first; first century ... See more keywords