ARCH 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: The Bell Curve, Capoid Race, Negroid

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 131
• Professor: Dennis Sandgathe

Document Summary

C. linnaeus perhaps first to try to classify modern humans systematically: Homo sapiens europeaus albescens white people from europe. Homo sapiens africanus negreus black people from africa. Homo sapiens asiaticus focus dark people from asia. Homo sapiens americanus rubescens red people from the americas. Johann freidrich blumenbach german anatomist of the late 1700s to early 1800s. Mainly on basis of cranial shape, he recognized five races: mongolian, american, 1840s, developed the cephalic index = breadth of skull/length of skull x 100. A. kroeber"s family tree of human races. Humans separated into three primary branches: negroid, caucasian and. May have originated the most recent version of five races: The idea of intrinsic differences between races" is reflected in the notion of. The misconception that culture evolves like organisms and that this evolution is moving towards move advanced forms. This led to the concept of biological determinism.