CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Civil War, Frontal Sinus, Miscegenation
16 Sep 2016
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During early years, every civilized man passes through that phase of character exhibited by the barbarous race from which he he is descended. Savage = south america, small scale (tribe) with no written language & no scientific understanding. Young children resemble established people biologically difference between the civilized & non-civilized. Dunn"s civilization and cerebral development (1864) argues that (nordic) Europeans enjoyed whole brain development , while the carib, negrp and. Irish from leitrim, sligo and mayo experienced lesser development. Convenient idea for the europeans to have; justified what they were doing around the world. Applied concept of recapitulation ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny to child development as an explanation for racial differences. Physiological racial differences were minimal in small children, develop during adolescence. Anthropometry after the us civil war made the assumption that cranial structure development, particularly the closure if the cranial sutures", indicated arrested cognitive development". No significant differences in physical structure with any of those who hold a different race.
