ANTHR150 Lecture Notes - Paul Broca, Brain Size, Anthropometry
23 Jun 2014
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Immanuel kant essay on the different human races 1775: wrote his essay to combat polygenesis and defend the concept of race, he is the first to clearly distinguish race from species, all humans are from the same species, different races that were, he provided the first rigorous definition of race, he believes in monogenesis, all humans have a common origin, he argues that the first humans contained the seeds of all four races, explain differences in races through environmental conditions. 1775:1795: he includes all humans in the same species, but recognizes five principal varieties of mankind, they are all related, or only differ from each other in degree, although he recognizes the arbitrary nature the categories of race, he believes some classifications are more natural than others, his categories reinforce the idea that some races have degenerated more than others.
