ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Socalled, High-Altitude Cerebral Edema, Visual Acuity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Finnis E.

Document Summary

1 the concept of "race" is a social construct that is a biological fallacy. 2 relationships between evolutionary processes and cultural contexts. 3 human variation can have adaptive significance (although it doesn"t have to) 4 even as we change and evolve, other organisms are doing the same thing (often influenced by the actions of humans) Polytypism (many types) and the problem of attempting to draw "racial" lines: broad variation withing species, but only to a degree, the problem of drawing lines. Typical example is if skin color and tone: can we classify people based on skin. Biological anthropologists have come to a consensus that the idea of race concept cannot be applied to. That does not mean that we don"t recognise biological diversity in humans! But: we still have to recognize that there is biological diversity in the human species.