ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Malnutrition, Coevolution, Developing Country

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Evol anth lecture 6: human variation and forensic anthropology. In science, race is geographically circumscribed population or set of populations that differe from all other populations of a species. Racism in toronto, ontario, canada, and north america. Physical traits we think of as clustering together among particular peoples often have much broader distributions. They continue well outside of geographic areas in which race is stereotypically supposed to exist. Examples: dark brown skin is found in sub-saharan africans as well as people from southern. Asia, australia, new guinea and on nearby islands of melanesia, as well as in much of the. No biological or phylogenetic ways to define a human race. Race concepts based on everything from skin colour through region(s) of origin to ethnicity. Crude classification system typically involves self-identification based on up-bringings, culture, ethnicity, etc. Morphological and genetic differences in human races much smaller than those needed to consider nonhuman animals subspecies. Caused by microbial agent (e. g common flu)

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