ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Body Proportions, Vasodilation, Human Genome Diversity Project
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Varieties of the human species (1749: descriptive, rejected classifications, emphasized unity of species, behavioral & cultural biases. They both incorporate cultural bias in their description of human groups differ bc buffon rejects the classification of human groups. Problems in classifying humans: humans are both the investigators & subjects. Eugenics born in the late 1800s from darwin"s theory of natural selection: goal was for the betterment of the human species by the selective breeding for favorable traits. Francis galton: 1869 heredity genius , prominence is inborn, statistics, used biology to reinforce social prejudices. Charles davenport: 1911 heredity in relation to eugenics , established eugenics in us scientific program. How was eugenics to be carried out: restriction of immigration, restriction of the propagation of undesirable heritable traits, encouragement of breeding between individuals with desirable genetic traits. Ernest hooton tried to go against polytypism, and tried to promote polymorphism: broke from eugenics movement. Polymorphism-a species with alternative forms (alleles) of particular genes.
