Quantitative studies of cultural evolution and gene-culture coevolution (henceforth “CE” and “GCC”) emerged in the 1970s, in the aftermath of the “race and intelligence quotient (IQ)” and “human sociobiology” debates, as a counter to extreme hereditarian positions. These studies incorporated cultural transmission and its interaction with genetics in contributing to patterns of human variation. Neither CE nor GCC results were consistent with racist claims of ubiquitous genetic differences between socially defined races. We summarize how genetic data refute the notion of racial substructure for human populations and address naive interpretations of race across the biological sciences, including those related to ancestry, health, and intelligence, that help to perpetuate racist ideas. A GCC perspective can refute reductionist and determinist claims while providing a more inclusive multidisciplinary framework in which to interpret human variation.

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基因、文化和科学种族主义


文化进化和基因-文化协同进化（以下简称“CE”和“GCC”）的定量研究出现在 1970 年代，在“种族和智商 （IQ）”和“人类社会生物学”辩论之后，作为对极端遗传主义立场的反驳。这些研究结合了文化传播及其与遗传学的相互作用，导致了人类变异的模式。CE 和 GCC 结果都与社会定义种族之间普遍存在的遗传差异的种族主义主张不一致。我们总结了遗传数据如何反驳人类种族亚结构的概念，并解决了生物科学中对种族的天真解释，包括与血统、健康和智力相关的解释，这些解释有助于延续种族主义思想。GCC 观点可以反驳还原论和决定论的主张，同时提供一个更具包容性的多学科框架来解释人类变异。