SOC101Y1 Lecture : Lecture + all textbooks readings
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Dr. morton: races that rank higher in social hierarchy have bigger brains -> european. Criticisms of morton"sskull study: identifying the race of a skull imprecise even today, small, unrepresentative sample. Used african skulls that have been robbed from graves: controlling for sex reduces or eliminates race differences eg. average black female skulls actually turned out larger than female ones. Stereotype: black ppl = more genetic superiority in sports. However: most of the top runners are west african descent. But theyre not excelling at swimming, hockey, etc. Dna is a chemical that contains the genetic instructions for all living organisms. When ppl have a child, the dna of the mates combines child inherits that parent"s dna. Dna consists of 3 billion pairs of 4 types of molecules. Diff sequences of molecules result in characteristics (eg. skin colour). 99. 5% of the dna of all ppl is identicial.