SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, Comparative Genomics, Brain Size
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Prejudice: is an attitude that people employ to judge others on their group"s real. Discrimination: unfair treatment of people due to their perceived group. Morton: measured human skulls from various times & places, believed that the larger a person"s brain was the smarter the person was, created a hierarchy of races according to brain sizes. European origin, asians, american indians, & then black people. Races that ranked higher in social hierarchies had the largest brains whites of. Natural & biological hierarchies of races justification of colonization & slavery. Biologist from harvard, gould, found that: identifying the race of a skull imprecise even today, small, unrepresentative sample, controlling for sex reduces or eliminates race difference. Brain size doesn"t matter in determining intelligence, or that races have certain. Many people believe that biological differences result in certain types of. Investing more in high quality education does produce results for the brain sizes behaviour in particular races underprivileged.
