As a part of my continued interest in race and genetics, I started reading Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. Part I starts with a history of race in genetics by Michael Yudell, where Yudell takes readers through the years from the eighteenth-century to the present. To summarize that history, Michael Yudell first begins with what race means: a way to classify people. He notes that race has been influenced by geography, politics, culture, science, and economics — and this applies to all of human history. For as long as … Continue reading A Brief History of Race and Genetics