Fatimah Jackson
Fatimah Jackson (Fatimah Linda Collier Jackson) is an African American biologist and anthropologist. Dr. Jackson is a scientist, scholar and Activist([1] , [2] , [3].)
She was a professor of biological anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). She now teaches at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. (cum laude and with distinction in all subjects), M.A., and Ph.D. from Cornell University. She became professor emerita of applied biological anthropology at the University of Maryland after teaching there for 20 years.[4] She is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Teacher Award from the University of Maryland in 1995.[5]
Jackson served as director of UNC's Institute of African American Research from 2009 to 2011.[6] Her research on peoples of recent African-descent also led to appearances on the PBS program African American Lives and the BBC's Motherland.[citation needed] She believes that the evolution theory and religion do not contradict each other.[7]
References
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- ^ Seabrook, John. Flash of Genius: And Other True Stories of Invention.
- ^ Reardon, Jenny. Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics.
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- ^ http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2715/138/
- ^ Hameed, Salman (January 11, 2013). "Muslim thought on evolution takes a step forward". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 April 2013.