ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Genome Project, Melanin, Microevolution
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History of the study of human variation: linnaeus (1758) separated humans into 5 categories. Europaeus (white, blond hair, serious, has laws) Monstrosus (deformed or imaginary: count de buffon (1749) rejected categories. Differ: de buffon moves away from categorization hard to classify humans because of inequalities and bias. Eugenics movement better the human species via selective breeding people with favorable traits encouraged to reproduce people with undesirable traits discouraged from reproducing. Francis galton (1869 heredity genius) prominence is inborn, so we must breed for prominence. Charles davenport (1911 heredity in relation to eugenics) established eugenics in the usa. Eugenics carried out in 3 ways: restrict immigration, restrict undesirable trait propagation, encourage breeding of individuals with desirable traits. Eugenics took hold in nazi germany: aryan ideal. Ernest hooton abandoned eugenics polymorphism (much variation in populations) 5 subspecies of human criticisms: different times for becoming humans inferring race from fossils he looks like a tool.
