AN237 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Eye Color, Carl Linnaeus, Eugenics
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Race, place, and face: obvious differences among us, some obvious differences tend to cluster with continent/ geography, human tendency/desire to classify/order variation in the natural world. = folk taxonomies/ categorizations that emphasize visible biological and cultural differences that correspond to geographic regions. Scientists have a long history of subdividing the superficial phenotype human biological diversity into a variety of discrete "races" or even subspecies. Race concepts are relatively new: not found in ancient texts, started with widespread exploration and colonization, formalized in practices and laws. Apartheid: eventually found its way to science. Systena naturae - linnaeus 1758 eugenics - 20th century. Monogenesis: original creation of one human form, variants today represent degeneration.
