CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heritage Language, Ethnic Group, Cultural Anthropology
21 Apr 2016
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Quote on sakai by herbert spencer: taking the ideas of darwin and interpreting it in a sociological context, resemblance those of the savage . Young people look like primitives and as they grow, they grow into civilized people. Dunn argues that nordic europeans enjoyed whole brain development , in comparison to other parts of the world: these people had other brains and are not as highly developed in comparison to. Concept of recapitulation ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny : as an individual grows, they recapitulate the evolution of our species in our earlier stage of evolution. Whereas the nordic europeans have surpassed this. Physiological racial differences were minimal in small children, develop during adolescence. Anthropometry after the us civil ware made the assumption that cranial structure development, particularly the closure of the cranial sutures". Believed to mature earlier thus creating a conflict for existence between brain growth and reproductive organ grown at puberty .
