ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vasoconstriction, Body Proportions, Mendelian Inheritance
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Lecture 4: history of the study of human variation. Americanus: red painted itself with red lines, ill tempered, thick black hair. Europaeus: white, serious, flowing blonde hair, blue eyes, very smart, active inventive and smart, & Asiaticus: yellow melancholy; ruled by opinion, loose clothing. Afer: curly black hair, ruled by capris. Monstrosus: flat heads of canada & other deformed imaginary people. Classified all organisms into groups in terms of characteristics. Although linnaeus was successful in binomial nomenclature, could not go beyond cultural biases in. In 1735 when he came up with binomial nomenclature he included genus homo classification of own species. Count de buffon varieties of the human species (1749) He tried to be more descriptive & rejected idea of classifying humans intos groups. Categorizing humans have a long history & a lot of cultural biases & problems. As early as 1700s he tried to reject idea of classifying humans.
