ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carl Linnaeus, Eugenics, Genetic Variation
13 Apr 2014
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Ant101 - human diversity: history of the study of human variation. Linneaus 1758: classificatory, linneaus is the father of modern taxonomy. Because he rejected classifications: the errors he made is that he still had cultural biases. Problems in classifying humans: humans are both the investigators & subjects. It suggests that individuals with favorable traits who breed amongst one another will have offspring with these traits, leading to the betterment of a society. It promotes racism, stating that some people should not breed with one another. 1911 heredity in relation to eugenics : established eugenics in us scientific program. Racial: examinations of biological differences among human groups. Racist: biological differences among human groups to reinforce social divisions. **the term race is hardly even used anymore this in hopes of unifying humans. Inferring race from fossils: using cultural criteria to rank races. Modern synthetic theory of evolution: bringing together of darwinian natural selection & mendelian genetics, origin of population genetics.
