HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Disparate Impact, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
23 Apr 2017
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Race can be defined as the perception that significant taxonomic and physiognomic differences, that is differences in appearance, contribute to divergences in temperament, intelligence, trustworthiness and morality. Race is generally connected to the idea of genetic or hereditary traits that are passed on from generation to generation. Physiognomic differences that we associated with different races have no bearing on interior qualities (intelligence and other features) No biological groundings for any notion of race. However, race for many has been taken as a biological difference, which can be attributed to various reasons: pseudo-scientific notion of race: connected to evolution. Charles darwin: all life emerged from less complex forms to more complex forms, that for instance, human beings evolved from species of primates (assumed to be a scientific path that can be observed from one species to another) Ethnicity often overlaps with race and can be expressed in more cultural terms. Race is, for most who have practiced it, a biological difference.
