ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Univariate, Probability Distribution, Caucasian Race
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Culture gives assumptions about the world unknowingly. People doing research of brain and cognitive perceptions. Distinction bt anterior and back parts of brain. Coded identities of the brains/unknown race and gender. Found no significant correlation of complete divergence that. Still had the bias of superiority in white males structured his research. Brain is proportion of body--no bearing on intelligence. Females-elderly females who died of debilitating diseases. Has much to say about the posture of the being. To help orient the spine to be parallel for animals. Ours is angled perpendicular for upright posture. Whichever one had a farther back had a relationship to the apes--inferior. Expecting africans with the posterior ones and whites with anterior. Looks for a different framework to interpret the data in his reference. Critique of using race to interpret sociocultural difference in. Culture is learned in the context in which we are raised, not inherited. All peoples have the capacity to acquire culture.
