What Can Evolution Teach Us About Race and Racism? An Interview with Joseph L. Graves Jr.

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v102i5e-218684

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biological evolution, racial groups, racism, science, interview

Abstract

Dr. Joseph L. Graves Jr., a renowned American evolutionary biologist and geneticist from North Carolina A&T State University, granted an interview to Revista de Medicina through the research groups Race.ID (Research Group on Black Population Health) and BrEHS (Brazilian Evolution and Health Study Group). In the interview, the professor talks about his journey, the challenges he has faced in his career, what it means to be a Black scientist in the USA, the complex relationship between medicine and the concept of race, and how evolutionary medicine is connected to all of this.

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Published

2023-11-17

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Vol. 102 No. 5 (2023)

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Interview

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Copyright (c) 2023 Eyshila Leticia Nunes Salles, Rogério Cleiton de Andrade, Lukas Blumrich

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Salles, . E. L. N., Andrade, R. C. de, & Blumrich, L. (2023). What Can Evolution Teach Us About Race and Racism? An Interview with Joseph L. Graves Jr. Revista De Medicina, 102(5), e-218684. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1679-9836.v102i5e-218684