How Long to Read Genetic Crossroads

How Long Does it Take to Read Genetic Crossroads?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read Genetic Crossroads by Elise K. Burton

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern Middle Eastern nation-states, who proclaimed that the region's ancient history—as a cradle of civilizations and crossroads of humankind—was preserved in the bones and blood of their citizens. Using letters and publications from the 1920s to the present, Elise K. Burton follows the field expeditions and hospital surveys that scrutinized the bodies of tribal nomads and religious minorities. These studies, geneticists claim, not only detect the living descendants of biblical civilizations but also reveal the deeper past of human evolution. Genetic Crossroads is an unprecedented history of human genetics in the Middle East, from its roots in colonial anthropology and medicine to recent genome sequencing projects. It illuminates how scientists from Turkey to Yemen, Egypt to Iran, transformed genetic data into territorial claims and national origin myths. Burton shows why such nationalist appropriations of genetics are not local or temporary aberrations, but rather the enduring foundations of international scientific interest in Middle Eastern populations to this day.

How long is Genetic Crossroads?

Genetic Crossroads by Elise K. Burton is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Genetic Crossroads Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read Genetic Crossroads aloud.

What Reading Level is Genetic Crossroads?

Genetic Crossroads is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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