ANT203H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Melanin, Carl Linnaeus, American Anthropological Association
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When you think of 60 thousand years in evolutionary times, that a very short time. Beginning 60 kya, anatomically modern humans expanded to occupy every region of the plant. Modern humans inhabit areas showing a wide range in ecological and climatic conditions. In places like toronto, it"s easy to see the diversity of our species. It is coming primarily from this period of time. In this lecture, we will review the extend, the pattern and the meaning of variation in modern humans, and we will also discuss historic attempts to understand this diversity. Attempts to classify humans according to their physical characteristics go back thousands of years. One of the first scientific attempts was that of carolus linnaeus, the founder of modern taxonomic classification: he also invented bionomial classification (genus, species, this is an effort that goes back thousands of years. It is very instructive to review in some detail linnaeus" 18th century classification of humans.