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2020 / 2021Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Anthropology and Human Heredity

CAS AN 551

Credits:
4
Undergraduate Prerequisites:
CAS AN 102 or CAS AN 233; and consent of instructor.

What can our genes say about who we are? This course surveys the theory and methods of evolutionary genetics and genomics as applied to human diversity, and their intersection with social issues such as racism, bioethics, and eugenics.

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