{"id":37553,"date":"2014-10-02T01:11:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T01:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37553"},"modified":"2014-10-02T01:46:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T01:46:16","slug":"the-race-myth-racial-disparities-in-health-and-why-there-are-so-few-african-american-evolutionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37553","title":{"rendered":"The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfGlmVpUajs\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCCUf8vwRTFDnHgEi0uv4hzA\" target=\"_blank\">Evolution: This View of Life<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evolution.binghamton.edu\/dswilson\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Sloan Wilson<\/strong><\/a>, Host and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>State University of New York, Binghamton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu\/faculty\/joseph-l-graves-jr-ph-d\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Joseph L. Graves<\/strong><\/a>, Professor &amp; Associate Dean for Research (author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=19692\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America<\/em><\/a>)<br \/>\nJoint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering<br \/>\n<em>North Carolina A&amp;T State University &amp; University of North Carolina, Greensboro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VfGlmVpUajs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Black_History_Month\" target=\"_blank\">Black History month<\/a>, we are pleased to present an interview with Joseph L. Graves, a distinguished evolutionist and the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolutionary_biology\" target=\"_blank\">evolutionary biology<\/a>. Prof. Graves explains why race is a myth, despite the undeniable fact of local adaptation. He also discusses his own research on aging, how an evolution-savvy diet saved his life, and the surprising reason why African-Americans are even less well represented in evolutionary biology than they are in science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Race Myth, Racial Disparities in Health, and Why There Are So Few African American Evolutionists Evolution: This View of Life 2012-02-24 David Sloan Wilson, Host and Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology State University of New York, Binghamton Joseph L. Graves, Professor &amp; Associate Dean for Research (author of The Race Myth: Why We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,2039,13743,8,20,842],"tags":[17994,17993,7847,632],"class_list":["post-37553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-david-sloan-wilson","tag-evolution-this-view-of-life","tag-joseph-graves","tag-joseph-l-graves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}