S. O. Y. Keita

Anthropologist, Person

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Who is S. O. Y. Keita?

Shomarka Omar Yahya Keita M.D., DPhil., known as Shomarka Keita, is an American anthropologist. He is affiliated with the National Human Genome Center of Howard University and the Department of Anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution.

He has been interested in the origins of the concepts of race, the misconception of human variation as race, and the scientific approaches to the biocultural origins and histories of indigenous African peoples.

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Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Howard University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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