ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Foramen Magnum, Fucus, Carl Linnaeus
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Intro to sociocultural anthropology 2a week 0 & week 1. He discovered that a white male and female"s brain had more genu than it african american counterparts. Franklin mall- repeated bean"s research, but he prevented bias by labeling the brain in the bottom so he had no idea which brain was which. Paul brocca-he was a major proponent of scientific rigor, and has lots of integrity. Foraman magnum- half point between splenum and genu. Compared the foramen magnum, if it was closer, than that race had more splenum. Changed research topic and said farther foraman magnum meant a closer realtion to apes. The critique of scientific racism"s claims of human. All peoples have the capacity to acquire culture. The four facts of human bio variation: there is biological variation, we differ in measurable ways, geographically localized variation, closer = similar bio variation.
