ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Genome Diversity Project, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Tay–Sachs Disease
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Separated humans into 5 categories: americanus, auropaeus, asiaticus, afer, monstrosus. Rejected classifications: did not adhere to different types/categories more progressive. Emphasized unity of species: tried to suggest that there were more similarities than differences in populations. Humans are both the investigators and subjects. Inequalities and injustices: there are differences between different populations (incorporating cultural bias) Goal was for the betterment of the human species by the selective breeding for favourable traits. Prominence is inborn: statistics, used biology to reinforce social prejudices. Restriction of immigration in the us in the 1920"s. Restriction of the propagation of undesirable heritable traits. Encouragement of breeding between individuals with desirable genetic traits. Eugenics took hold in national socialist germany. Broke from eugenics movement: even before world war 2 when everyone else wanted to break away. Polymorphism: a species with alternative forms (alleles) particular genes. Racial: examinations of biological differences among human groups. Racist: biological differences among human groups to reinforce social divisions.
