ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: East Los Angeles College, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Louis Agassiz
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This posited that the reason human cultures differed in their behaviors was. By the 19th century, few cultures were being civilized in the way europeans because they represented separate subspecies of humans, or races. expected. Humans are classified into 4 distinct races (americans, european, asiatic, and. Africa) each defined by physical characteristics as well as emotional and behavioral ones. Johann blumenbach: he divided humans into 5 races: caucasian, mongolian malayan, Ethiopian, american, to help classify the variety of humans that europeans colonists were encountering. He was the first to explicitly link race with behavior and intelligence. Not only were native americans a separate race but their behavioral differences from european americans were rooted in the physical structures of their brains. This justified the exploitive relationships of colonialism and slavery and fought darwin"s idea of evolution. He argued that significant and stable differences existed between people of. He implied that these differences illustrated god"s creation of human races .
