ANT 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Social Inequality, Birth Weight, Preterm Birth
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The north american race concept: all of these are false: humans can be naturally divided into a few biological subdivisions. These races" are discrete (boundaries don"t overlap), exclusive (, permanent, and homogenous; and the differences among them are due to genetic heritage. The superficial traits that we use to distinguish races reflect more fundamental, innate biological differences. In other words, if you know a person"s race, you can tell other important things about them. This seems like : genes blend in offspring but we already learned that this is not true, matter is solid matter is actually many particles close together, race is genetic this is one perception. The earth is flat but we know that it"s round: three important lessons, race human genetic variation. There is more variation within groups than there is between them: biology genetics. Biology incorporates many things in addition to genes, especially environmental factors.
