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Bodies with histories

From NDPR, a review of The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis by Richard Richards. Bodies with histories: A review of Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance by Richard Francis, The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference by Ann Morning, and Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts. Razib Khan on how human races may have biological meaning, but races mean nothing about humanity. A review of Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity by Raymond Tallis. From Slate, Sam Kean blogs the human genome. An excerpt from The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance by Nessa Carey. A review of The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body by Frances Ashcroft. New evidence proves humans are continuing to evolve and that significant natural and sexual selection is still taking place in our species in the modern world.