ANTHROP 2FF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blue Jay, Paraphyly, Fordisc
8 Jul 2016
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Modern human variation: beginning 60 kya, anatomically modern humans expanded to occupy every region of the planet, modern humans inhabit areas showing a wide range in ecological and climatic conditions. Eventually found a way to live there. Father of physical anthropology: established five human races that represented the human types, mongolian (yellow, american (red, caucasian (white) Top of beauty list: malayan (brown, ethiopian (black, used a more biological approach, rejected multiple origins, rejected african inferiority, made caucasians most beautiful but didn"t say the rest were inferior, recognized the continuous nature of human variation. French physician: one of the first scientists to use word race in modern sense, also used by french naturalist buffon 1745, unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups, geographically and genetically distinct population, ernst mayr. Taxonomy: theory and practice of classifying organism, very first one was linnaeus and his scalar naturea, cladistics, based on solely on strong evidence of evolutionary (phylogenetic) relationships.
