NEW240Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Carl Linnaeus, Robarts Library
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Video: endgame - eugenics/ population control excerpt. Now jumping to the the enlightenment & carl linnaeus: The first step of wisdom is to know these bodies; and be able, by those marks imprinted on them by nature, to distinguish them from each other, and to affix to every object its proper [my italics ] name. Linnaeus"s scientific classification of the peoples of the world: in the category mammalia", linnaeus places humans in 5 sections: and these are constructed in a value laden hierarchy: Copper-coloured, choleric, erect": hair; black, straight, thick: nostrils, wide: face, harsh; beard, scanty; obstinate, content , free. Fair, sanguine, brawny: hair, yellow, brown, flowing: eyes blue; gentle, acute, inventive. Meloncholy, rigid: hair, black; eyes, dark; fevere, haughty, covetous. Phlegmatic, relaxed: hair, black, frizzled: skin silky; nose flat; lips tumid; crafty, indolent, Among a field of others: comte de buffon and writings such as a.
