COMPSCI 1BA3 Chapter Notes -Brain Size, Ethnocentrism, Samuel George Morton
21 Feb 2014
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Many centuries have passed with anthropologists pondering about the notion of. The idea and development of race has been a topic of discussion, and continues to be to this very day. Myths and notions about race have been in circulation as early as the eighteenth and nineteenth century (moses 2013: page 114). These views separate humankind into different categories based on their physical attributes, intelligence, and athletic abilities (moses 2013: page 114). As anthropologists have come to realize, looking at race from a holistic approach, it is more of a socially constructed notion developed by society than a biological creation (mcgarry 2013). Firstly, early scientists believed that race was created on the basis of biologically visible physical attributes. They grouped individuals into categories based on characteristics such as skin colour, nose shape, and hair texture (moses 2013: page. This would mean that all people who look alike based on those attributes would be considered as one race .
