ANTHRO 128B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-5: Mental Age, Crossbreed, Gregor Mendel

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01/29: The Case of the Bearded Woman

Dr. Louis Duhring: American Dermatological Association

Viola M. = full beard/"superfluous"

oConfounded by her normal life

oCould "real" women have beards

Krao (Laos) - exhibited beard ("Darwin's Missing Link")

Hypertrichosis

Disease in 1870s

Grave threat to female happiness

Caused by too close with animals

Darwin: The Descent of Man

Different species and groups have aesthetic preferences

"Sexual Selection"

Female beauty is powerful evolutionary agent

Ads made once normal female facial hair repulsive disease

01/31: The "Survival of the Fittest"

"on the whole the best fitted live"

"Struggle for existence"

Origins of Species (1859)

Agnostic: lack of scientific evidence of God

Herbert Spencer: "survival of the fittest"

Social Darwinsim: isolates 4 main assumptions

1. Biological laws govern the whole of organic nature (humans)

2. Pressure of population growth on resources generates a struggle for existence

among organisms

3. Physical and mental traits confer an advantage on their possessors in this

struggle (or in sexual competition)

4. Cumulative effects of selection and inheritance over time account for the

emergence of new species and elimination of others

1. Social competition of "fit" and "unfit"

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