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This OER is part of OCW: Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study
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- linguistics and philosophy
- philosophy
- race
- natural kinds
- classification
- appiah
- naming
- genomics
- marriage
- intermarriage
- history of science
- dna
- eugenics
- biology
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