ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Zoonosis, Functional Response, World Health Organization
22 Jan 2017
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First step towards understanding diversity in nature is to organize it into categories that can be named, discussed, and perhaps studied. When different groups came in contact, they tried to account for the physical differences they saw (skin colour is noticeable). 1350 b. c ancient egyptians classified humans based on their skin color: red for egyptian, yellow for people from the east, white for those of the north, black for sub-saharan africans. Colonization of the new and old worlds led to an increased awareness of human diversity. Blumenbach: classified humans into 5 races, acknowledged limitations. All contemporary humans are members of the same polytypic species = A polytypic species is composed of local populations that differ in the expression of one or more traits. However, even within local populations, there"s a great deal of genotypic and phenotypic variation between individuals. Races people who have particular combinations of various characteristics and other traits have been placed together under this category.
