ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mitochondrial Eve, Rickets, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
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This illustrates the cultural bias within these classifications, personal judgement amid classifications: count de buffon 1749. Problems in classifying humans: categories used to validate cultural bias, humans are both the investigators and subjects easy to incorporate any cultural or social bias. Inequalities and injustices when you try to objectify or make something seem objective with use of scientific methodology, then trying to objectify own subjective means: culture and biology play crucial role. Suggests that prominence is favourable trait that"s inherited from parents to off-springs. Ex. encourage those not in poverty to reproduce will lead to less poverty. Tries to suggest we should be encouraging prominent individuals because they produce prominent off-springs and if we want prominent society, should encourage them to produce. If criminals don"t reproduce, can have crime-free society over generations: charles davenport. Ernest hooton: broke from eugenics movement, polymorphism a species with alternative forms (alleles) of particular genes.