ANTHROP 2E03 Chapter 6-13: 2E03 READING AFTER MIDTERM

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2E03
• Professor: Dr. Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Human variation at the individual and group levels. Chapte(cid:396) (cid:1010: human/population variation is widespread and can be measured using genetics and morphology. Tales of monsters and fantastic beasts took center stage: europeans (cid:1688)discovered(cid:1689) the new world, were these actually people, the monogenism-polygenism debate. Japanese imperialists justified their invasions of asian nations as acts of liberation from non-asian colonizers, while brutally asserting their superiority over their subject peoples. In the us (first half of 20th c), the demise of native americans was celebrated, blacks and whites lived separately and unequal lives, immigration laws kept (cid:1688)undesirables(cid:1689) from entering the country: changing attitudes towards race in anthropology. The vast majority of native americans have type o blood, mainly due to bottleneck effect: a and b antigen are identical across all of these species. Infectious disease plays a key role in the distribution of abo alleles in different populations.