SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Indian Act, American Civil War, Canadian Pacific Railway
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Not a shred of evidence proved morton"s ideas. Claimed to distinguish skulls of white/ black people by the shapes of the skulls not possible. His skulls formed a small sample of 72 skulls. His racial samples were incomparable with respect to gender women"s brains are smaller. Biological arguments are more sophisticated now, but previous arguments are questionable. Aristocrats saw blue veins under their pale skin but could not see them under peasants tan skin. Concluding to a higher social ranking: naming themselves blue bloods. 80 years ago racial differences with iq scores. Believed that iq scores were genetically abased. 1927: canadian professor: peter sandiford argued that canada must institute selective immigration to ensure that the best arrived in canada and that we kept misfits out. Provided iq tests mental superiority of europeans. Japanese and chinese ancestry had the highest intelligence scores. No gene linked to general athletic superiority has yet been identified.
