AUTHOR'S BIO
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan Marks is a Biological Anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and is the author of What It Means To Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes.
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The Cultural Bias of Genetics
Jonathan Marks Series: Science and Society 2004-11-16All cultures impose on their members ideas about who they are, how they came to be, and where they fit in socially.�For example, pre-modern Europe believed that a woman who had sex before marriage might carry the imprint of her lover within her, so that her child born in wedlock would resemble the earlier lover, rather than the husband.�This served to justify the premium placed on female chastity. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 29344
