ANTHR-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Nordic Race, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Neolithic Revolution
23 Sep 2020
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Symbolic art found in southern africa dated to middle stone age (80,000-77,000 ybp) More varied toolkit (fish hooks, needles, spear/arrow points, etc. ) Clearing of forests for farming and grazing. Cold weather clothing for higher latitudes and altitudes. Typological approach to race identifying types within homo sapiens. Non-adaptive traits explain real differences between races. Biological determinism: the idea that most human characteristics, physical and mental, are determined at conception by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring. A movement originating with the work of francis galton in the late 19th c. Many groups through the 20th century have co-opted science in support of their. Lengths of the branches indicate genetic distance". Humans as compared to the other great apes occupy very little genetic space". This means that among humans there is very little genetic diversity. At least compared to our closest relatives. It"s true that certain groups of humans cluster genetically with each other.
