ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noam Chomsky
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Study of anthropology is the study of culture. Linguistics is the study of nature of language and the transformation of communication. 1/5th of 1% of language are being survived. 80% of the world just speak in one of the 83 languages. Noam chomsky; sophistication and complexion of language is not just simpli cation; we are somehow hardwired for language. If one could improve and select desirable gene from gene pools, one could eliminate the unwanted; thus led germans to murder millions of innocent people. Kume proposed many radical ideas such as interracial interfering the gene pool; he was the president of the american anthropology association. Genetic endowment is all of humanity; a single continuum; we"re the entire human race. Any mind or anyone of these individual cultures might be reborn - we"re all cut from the same cloth. Every culture comes from the same raw genes and shares the same human potential.
