Modern Human Variation: Related Internet Sites

Related Internet Sites

Related Tutorials Online:

ethnicity and race (cultural anthropology tutorial on U.S. and global patterns of social group differentiation and inequality)

human blood (physical anthropology tutorial on the ABO and Rh system with a description of blood components and an explanation of the antigen-antibody interaction that causes agglutination)

Race: Are We So Different (outstanding interactive website produced by the American Anthropological Association)

Skin Color Adaptation links:

The Biology of Skin Color: Black and White (article by Gina Kirchweger in the February 2001 issue of Discover--you must be a paid subscriber of Discover to see it)

Blood Related links:

What is Thalassemia? (Scientific American 1-18-99--descriptive report by Elizabeth McPherson)

What's Your Type (good presentation of what blood typing is all about--The Franklin Institute Science Museum)

Other Related Links:

AllRefer.com Health (a broad source of medical information for the educated layman)

American Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 15: Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting (Official statement of the American Anthropological Association to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on the scientific inappropriateness of using race rather than ethnicity for data collection)

Healthopedia.com (an online medical encyclpedia)

Journal of Human Evolution (articles on biological anthropology topics)

MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine)

PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine database of 9 million research article abstracts from Medline and Pre-Medline)

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