ANTB15H3 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Franz Boas, Allele
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Lugenic: was popular in canada as well, there was an act. Looked at immigrants and children and noticed that the children didn"t have the same heights as the parents, and some kids were taller and he postulated that it is because there was better nutrition. Idea of race, there was a slow change to look at the population and not just the individual, and appreciate that there are variability within population, and there are overlap among population. Recognizing the variation we avoid the average races. Geography played a role in establishing boundaries until recent migrations. Breeding populations possess a suite of traits that set a group apart. He had typs of features on the face and put them in different types typological thinking. But we cant do this, because there is way too much variation. Challenged the concept of fixity of species : once they are created they remain in the same form .
