ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Medical Anthropology, Coevolution, Ossification
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Race is geographically circumscribed pop"n or set or pop"ns that differ from all other pop"ns of a species. Physical traits we think of as clustering together among particular peoples often have much broader distributions. They continue well outside of geographic areas in which race is supposed to exist. Dark brown skin in saharan africans, as well as people from southern asia, Australia, new guinea, and on nearby islands of melanesia, as well as in much of the americas. No biological or phylogenetic ways to define a human race. Race concepts based on everything from skin colour through region(s) or origin to ethnicity. Crude classification system typically involves self-identification base on up-bringing, culture, ethnicity, etc. Morphological and genetic differences in human races much smaller than those needed to consider non-human animals subspecies. Is a subfield of anthro that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthro to better understand those factors which influence.
