The 1995 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held February 16-21 in Atlanta, had as its theme "Unity in Diversity." In keeping with that motto, a group of scientists declared in a statement at the conference that "old biological concepts of race no longer provide scientifically valid distinctions." On February 20, Solomon H. Katz, director of the Krogman Center for Research in Child Growth and Development at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the document, which describes the findings of an American Association of Physical Anthropologists task force he chaired on the subject. "The use of race is no longer a valid scientific distinction," Katz said at a news conference the day before his talk. He stressed that the researchers were speaking only about genetic distinctions; "we're not commenting on the social side." C. Loring Brace, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan, ...
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Shake-and-Bake Structures JASON Vs. The Volcano Something's Aflutter Is Race Passe? Unimpressed By The Press What Next--Wonderbras? Party Time Unsung Heroines No Accounting For Ethics Researchers at the University of Buffalo and its Hauptman- Woodward Medical Research Institute have developed a computer program--used in conjunction with a software package developed by Houston-based Molecular Structure Corp.--that will solve the structure of large biomolecules. The program is called Shake-and-B
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