HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Genome Project, Yemenite Jews, Kohen
26 Oct 2016
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Modern gih tech sociecites are the creation of non renewable energy, coal and petroleum thayt were produced by the last great extinction (200-600 million yrs ago) Race- multiple non intersecting lines of dev. Social darwinism 19th century european philosophy which used darwins evolutionary theories to explain power differences and justify empiredd. Emergest as a social category (sorting peoples from other peoples) in the 19th century. Social categories have shapes and continue to shape perceptions, policies and power relationships. But race has no scientific meaning* in terms of genetics or human capactity for achievement. Population geneticist tested dna samples from lemba men. Researchers found that there are common dns sequences among jews across the wolrd. Lemnba men carry a dna sequnce distinctive to the cohanim particularily common among the buba clan, the senior of their 12 groups. Lemba forfathres were yemeni jews who traveled to trade in great.
