SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Samuel George Morton, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, Comparative Genomics

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25 Apr 2012
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Believed that the bigger your brain is, more intellectual you are. Found that caucasian skulls were bigger that asian, african american, etc. Used his ideas to justify colonization and slavery. Small, unrepresentative sample (only used 72 specimens)- generalization. Even now, archeologists cannot precisely determine race by skull shape. Controlling for sex reduces or eliminates race difference. Although morton"s findings are meaningless, the idea of biological race determining the intelligence of a person. Nowadays, they score well above average: iq= not fixed. Not biological but a social factor: north american jews worked hard and provided their children with education and resources needed to excel in school) However, no gene linked to athletic superiority has been identified. Athletes of american african descends do not perform well in swimming, hockey, soccer and tennis, etc . Different groups of people tend to excel in different sports due to the peculiarity of their society, culture, history and climate.

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