ANT E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Secondary Security Screening Selection, Intelligence Quotient, Eugenics In The United States
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Societies using simple technologies are not stone age people lacking history. Social darwinism, the ideology that justified colonial rule over less socially evolved people. A prior = superiority because of higher (social) evolution. Scientific racism and eugenics (prove europeans statically that they are on top) Measured the body in search of a measure for intelligence and proof of european. French believed that greater height to width ratio meant more intelligent. Hyp = heavier brains = more intelligent. Europeans did not have the heaviest brains. Hypothesis: more evolved had more central foramen magnum. Data = europeans not most centered, or no difference from africans. Hypothesis: more evolved had more shorter arms, less ape like. Data = europeans longer arms for body size than africans. A priori belief that some people more intelligent or evolved than others, just needed. Eugenics = selective breeding to improve quality of the population. Too many low quality, dumb, poor people breeding.
