ANTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Miscegenation, Carl Linnaeus, Genotype
6 Aug 2020
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You can place people in categories based on physical attributes. Race does not actually exist, it"s not biologically true. Falsely indicates that the races are different species. Apparently there is a difference in intelligence false. Cephalic index (range of index among all humans is 60-90) Claimed that all europeans had this index. Claimed that all africans had this index. Claimed that all asians had this index no exceptions. Because there are differences in intelligence between individuals and races, something has to be done to stop inferior races from producing (genocide, Alabama didn"t stop the law until 2001. Believed that there were 3 distinct races and subcategories for each one. This is of course false because there are always exceptions to the rule. More variation within populations than between populations. Range of variations in white people is greater than the variations between white and black people. Evolutionary adaptive significance of phenotypic and genotypic variation between populations.
