Geography 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Total Fertility Rate, Radiation Protection, Caucasian Race

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2410A/B
• Professor: Jeff Hopkins

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Lecture 5: race & racism, ethnicity & diversity. Immigration in canada: problems & prospects (february 11) Race" as traditionally defined: a group of individuals sharing common genetic attributes which determine that group"s physical appearance and, more controversially, their cognitive abilities. Three dominant categories: caucasoid (white, negroid (black, mongoloid (yellow) Contemporary social scientists fallacious: the belief that human beings can be readily divided into a series of discrete races is now widely regarded as. Instead, races are now widely regarded as a political and social construction rather than a biological fact, the product of racism rather than of human genetics. Not really, dna shows news article: examination of human genome: race" little or no biological meaning, no dna hallmarks of race", only one human" race. Race" is a social concept, not a biological one. Contemporary biology scientists: the term race" has little, or no, biological meaning with respect to modern humans, human species too young for separate biological groups.