Some recent publications

 

§  Marks, J. (2011) The Un-Textbook of Biological Anthropology

§  Marks, J. (2010) The two 20th century crises of racial anthropology.  In: History of Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century, edited by M. A. Little and K. A. R. Kennedy.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 187-206.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Why I Am Not A Scientist: Anthropology and Modern KnowledgeBerkeley: University of California Press.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Darwin’s ventriloquists.  Anthropology Now, 1(3):1-11.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Ape and human similarities can be deceptiveNature,  460:796.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Lessons from historyInternational Journal of Cultural Property, 16: 199-204.

§  Marks, J. (2009) The nature of humanness.  In: The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology, ed. B. Cunliffe, C. Gosden, and R. Joyce.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 237-253.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Intelligent Design and the Native’s Point of View (Assuming the Native is an Educated 18th Century European).  In: Darwin and the Bible:  The Cultural Confrontation, edited by R. Robbins and M. N. Cohen. New York: Pearson Education, pp. 87-98.

§  Marks, J. (2009) Is poverty better explained by history of colonialism?  Nature, 458:145-146.

§  Marks, J. (2008) The long shadow (Review of Davenport’s Dream, edited by Witkowski and Inglis).  Nature Genetics, 40:1038.

§  Marks, J. (2008) The construction of Mendel’s LawsEvolutionary Anthropology, 17:250-253.

§  Marks, J. (2008) Human Genome Diversity Studies: Impact on Indigenous Communities. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences <www.els.net>.  John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005172.pub2

§  Marks, J. (2008) The Growth of Scientific Standards from “Anthropology Days” to Present Days.  In: The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism, ed. by S. Brownell.  Lincoln, NE:  University of Nebraska Press, pp. 383-396.

§  Marks, J. (2008) Race: Past, Present, and Future. In: Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, edited by B. Koenig, S. Lee, and S. Richardson.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, pp. 21-38.

§  Marks, J. (2008) Caveat emptor?  The Newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network, 7 (March 2008): 22-23.

§  Marks, J. (2008) Entries: Genetic Distance (vol. 2, pp. 27-28); Genetic Marker (vol. 2, pp. 28-29); Great Chain of Being (vol. 2, pp. 68-73); Scientific Racism, History of (vol. 3, pp. 1-16); Subspecies (vol. 3, pp. 104-105).  In:  The Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, ed. John H. Moore (Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA).

§  Marks, J. (2008) Race across the physical-cultural divide in American anthropology.  In: A New History of Anthropology, edited by H. Kuklick.  New York: Blackwell, pp. 242-258.

§  Marks, J. (2007) On rescuing science from scientists.  In: The Joys of Teaching Anthropology, ed. by P. Rice, C. Kottak, and D. MacCurdy.  New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 55-62.

§  Marks, J. (2007) Human biological diversity.  In: New Encyclopedia of Africa, ed. by J. Middleton and J. Miller.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.  2:620-624.

§  Bolnick, D. A., Fullwiley, D., Duster, T., Cooper, R. S., Fujimura, J., Kahn, J., Kaufman, J., Marks, J., Morning, A., Nelson, A., Ossorio, P., Reardon, J., Reverby, S., and Tallbear, K. (2007)  The science and business of genetic ancestry testing.  Science, 318:399-400.

§  Marks, J. (2007)  Anthropological taxonomy as both subject and object: The consequences of descent from Darwin and Durkheim.  Anthropology Today, 23(4):7-12.

§  Marks, J. (2007) Grand anthropological themes (Comment on Stephan Palmie’s “Genomics, divination, “racecraft”).  American Ethnologist, 34:233-235.

§  Marks, J. (2007) Long shadow of Linnaeus’s human taxonomy.  Nature, 447:28.

§  Marks, J. (2007) Who really wants to save the apes?  Journal of Biosciences, 32:183-184.

§  Marks, J. (2006) Review of A Genetic And Cultural Odyssey: The Life And Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza by Linda Stone and Paul F. Lurquin. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 12, 1001-1003.

§  Marks, J. (2006) Review of The Metaphysics of Apes by Raymond CorbeyInternational Journal of Primatology, 27:1223-1225.

§  Marks, J. (2006) The scientific and cultural meaning of the odious ape-human comparison.  In: The Nature of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology, edited by G. Ellison and A. Goodman.  London:  CRC Press, pp. 35-51.

§  Marks, J. and Harry, D. (2006) Counterpoint: Blood-Money.  Evolutionary Anthropology, 15:93-94.

§  Marks, J. (2005) New information, enduring questions: Race, genetics, and medicine in the 21st century.  GeneWatch, 18(4): 13-16.

§  Marks, J. (2005) Ernst Mayr, 1904-2005Evolutionary Anthropology, 14:83-85.

§  Marks, J. (2005) The profound relevance and irrelevance of biologyGeneral Anthropology, 11(2):1,5-7.

§  Marks, J. (2005) The realities of races.  Social Science Research Council Web Forum: Is Race Real?

§  Marks, J. (2005) Phylogenetic trees and evolutionary forests.  Evolutionary Anthropology, 14:49-53.

§  Marks, J. (2005) Your body, my property: The problem of colonial genetics in a post-colonial world.  In: Embedding Ethics, edited by Lynn Meskel and Peter Pels.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 29-45.

§  Marks, J. (2005)  Anthropology and The Bell Curve.   In: Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back, edited by C. Besteman and H. Gusterson. University of California Press, pp. 206-227.

§  Marks, J. (2004) What, if anything, is a Darwinian anthropology?  Social Anthropology, 12:181-193.

§  Marks, J. (2004) The cultural bias of genetics (my title was "Folk heredity and our place in nature") Project Syndicate (European science) website.

§  Marks, J. (2004) Review of Race: The Reality of Human Differences, by Vincent Sarich and Frank MieleThe Common Review, 3(2):42-44.

§  Marks, J. (2004)  Science and antiscience: Response to WeissAmerican Anthropologist, 106:786-787.

§  Marks, J. (2003)  Human Genome Diversity Project: Impact on Indigenous Communities. In: Encyclopedia of the Human Genome.  London: Macmillan.

§  Marks, J. (2003) 98% Chimpanzee and 35% Daffodil: The Human Genome in Evolutionary and Cultural Context.  In: Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two Culture Divide, ed. by A. Goodman, D. Heath, and M. S. Lindee.  Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 132-152.

§  Marks, J. (2003) Against the genetic grain (Review of Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science, by Jon Beckwith).  The Nation, 276(13):29-32 (April 7).

§  Marks, J. (2002) The faces of eugenics (Review of The Unfit by E. A. Carlson, A Life of Sir Francis Galton by N. W. Gillham, and Building a Better Race by W. Kline) Evolutionary Anthropology, 11: 249-251.

§  Marks, J. (2002)  Entries: Aleš Hrdlicka, Harry Shapiro, W. W. Howells, and Sherwood Washburn.  In: Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits, ed. R. Darnell and F. Gleach. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association, and Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, pp. 45-48,125-128,137-140,181-184.

§  Marks, J. (2002) What is molecular anthropology?  What can it be?  Evolutionary Anthropology, 11:131-135.

§  Marks, J. (2002) Contemporary bio-anthropology: Where the trailing edge of anthropology meets the leading edge of bioethics Anthropology Today, 18(4):9-13.

§  Marks, J. (2002) What It Means To Be 98% Chimpanzee.  Berkeley: University of California Press.  Now in Italian, Japanese, and Czech!

§  Marks, J. (2002) Review of Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, edited by Robert Aunger.   American Anthropologist,  104:341-342.

§  Marks, J. (2002) Genes, bodies, and species.  In: Physical Anthropology: Original Readings in  Method and Practice, edited by Peter N. Peregrine, C. R. Ember and M. Ember.  Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, pp. 14-28.

§  Marks, J. (2002)  Folk heredity.  In: Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth, ed. by J. Fish.  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 95-116.

§  Marks, J. (2001)  “We’re going to tell those people who they really are”: Science and relatedness.  In: Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies, ed. by S. Franklin and S. McKinnon.  Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 355-383.

§  Shelton, B. L., and Marks, J. (2001) Genes and native identityGeneWatch, 14(5):6-8.

§  Marks, J. (2001)  Scientific and folk ideas about heredity.  In: The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas, ed. by R. Zilinskas and P. Balint.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, pp. 53-66.

§  Marks, J. (2001) Comment on Lieberman (How "Caucasoids" got such big crania and why they shrank: From Morton to Rushton). Current Anthropology, 42:83-84.

§  Groce, N. E., and Marks, J. (2000) The Great Ape Project and disability rights: Ominous undercurrents of eugenics in action. American Anthropologist, 102:818-822.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Review of Taboo by Jon Entine. Human Biology, 72:1074-1078.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Sherwood Washburn 1911-2000. Evolutionary Anthropology, 9(6):225-226.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Heredity and genetics after the Holocaust.  In: Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Christians and Jews, ed. by Michael Signer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp.241-249.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Ashley Montagu: 1905-1999. Evolutionary Anthropology, 9(3):111-112.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Human biodiversity as a central theme of biological anthropology: Then and Now.  In: Racial Anthropology: Retrospective on Carleton Coon's The Origin of Races (1962).  Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, Number 84, pp. 1-10.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  98% Alike? (What Our Similarity to Apes Tells Us About Our Understanding of Genetics) The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 May 2000, p. B7.

§  Marks, J. (2000) The feckless quest for the basketball gene.  The New York Times (Op-Ed), Saturday April 8, p. A27.

§  Marks, J. (2000)  Entries: Allele, Chromosome, DNA Hybridization, Gene, Genetics, Genome, Genotype, Immunological Distance, Mitochondrial Eve Theory, Molecular Anthropology, Molecular Clock, Non-Darwinian Evolution, Phenotype, Polytypic, Population, Race (Human).  In: The Encyclopedia of Human Evolution and Prehistory, 2d ed., ed. by I. Tattersall, E. Delson, and J. Van Couvering. New York: Garland Press.

§  Harry, D., and Marks, J. (1999)  Human population genetics versus the HGDP (Comment on the paper by Resnick).  Politics and the Life Sciences, September 1999: 303-305.

§  Marks, J. (1998) How can we interject human evolution into more museums?  The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 4, 1998, p. B9.

§  Marks, J. (1998) Review of Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson, Human Biology, 70:143-146.

§  Marks, J. (1997)  Entries:  Buffon, Buffon’s Natural History, Eugenics, Molecular AnthropologyGenetics (Mendelian), Genetic Drift, Hardy-Weinberg, Mutation.  In: History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, ed. by F. Spencer.  New York: Garland Press.

§  Marks, J. (1996)  Science and raceAmerican Behavioral Scientist, 40:123-133.

§  Marks, J. (1996) The anthropology of science, Part II: Scientific norms and behaviors. Evolutionary Anthropology, 5:75-80
Marks, J. (1996) The anthropology of science, Part I: Science as a humanities.  Evolutionary Anthropology, 5:6-10.

§  Marks, J. (1996) The legacy of serological studies in American physical anthropology.  History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 18:345-362.

§  Marks, J. (1995)  Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History.  Aldine de Gruyter, New York.

§  Godfrey, L., and Marks, J. (1991) The nature and origins of primate speciesYearbook of Physical Anthropology, 34:39-68

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Jonathan Marks
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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