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Differences between Black and white pulmonary function attributed to genetics in seminal study.

1966

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Harvard anthropologist Albert Damon's study of Black and white U.S. Army drivers is the first to explicitly name genetics as a basis for lung function.

He draws on work done in the previous century, discarding explanations based on environmental factors that might affect illness and lung function.

His research will become widely cited, forming the "modern" root of how racial differences are perceived in the field of pulmonology.