ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vasoconstriction, Mendelian Inheritance, Human Genome Project
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Separated humans into 5 different categories: americanus, europeaus, asiaticus; yellow skinned, afer, monstrosus; contains any other deformed or imaginary people. Attempted to categories sub-species within larger modern human species. Played a huge role in the categorizing of other organisms. Attempted to travel different places of the world, and had cultural biases. Unlike linnaeus, he tried to emphasis unity of species (commonality) Tried to move away from idea of classification, and moved towards description. He tried to emphasis a unity or commonality between the groups. Tried to see a commonality of species (similar between linnaeus & Had different classifications (difference between linnaeus & Humans are both the investigators and subjects. Goal was for the betterment of the human species by selective breeding for favorable traits. Uses darwin"s idea of natural selection, to describe that people with favorable traits are more likely to succeed, and pass down traits to future generation. Francis galton: 1869 heredity genius , prominence is inborn.
