Brooke, John L. (Author)
Larsen, Clark Spencer (Author)
American Historical Review
Volume: 119, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 1500-1513
Edition Details: Part of a series: History Meets Biology
Language: English
THE EMERGING NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN history and biology involves a profound question: How different are we from our forebears in the past, and where are we going as a biological species? Are we essentially the same physical and biological beings as Ice Age hunter-gatherers or the early farming peoples of the warming early Holocene? How has the human body changed in response to nine or ten millennia of dramatic dietary change, a few centuries of public health interventions, and a few decades of toxic environmental exposures? In short, how has history shaped biology? The genetic and physiological relationship between humanity past and present has become a pressing issue with the recent decoding of the human genome, one that will inexorably link biology and culture, science and the humanities. This roundtable offers the opportunity to assess the overall shape of the genetic record in particular and human biological change in general. What, broadly, are the contexts in which biological change has clearly occurred in the recent past? And what of other pathways for bodily change, beyond the hard-wiring of the genetic code? These are not issues that will be resolved easily or quickly; they constitute a complex research agenda that is advancing rapidly across a wide array of disciplines, accelerated by the increasing sophistication of archaeological and historical research into the material conditions of the human past. Mainstream historians may recoil at the timescale of this agenda, at its necessary technical details, and most importantly at some of its possible implications about the human condition writ large. But it is an agenda that is rapidly colonizing our disciplinary space. It is also an agen
...MoreArticle Roundtable, American Historical Review (2014) Introduction: History Meets Biology. American Historical Review (pp. 1492-1499).
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