AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mutation, Phenotype, Ethnocentrism
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Lack formal social stratification although inequality based on age and gender may occur. Ones in which there is unequal access to prestige but not to valued economic: societies characterized by big men, and in some cases chiefs, fit this resources model. A broad human population category that allegedly corresponds to distinct, heritable sets of biological attributes and often conflates geographic ancestry and physical type. Early there were theories of race and contributed to. Has all the features of social stratification: scientific racism the science of race using anthropometric techniques (measuring the body, used to classify humans into racial types" i. e. caucasoid, mongoloid, negroid. The physical differences are a result of four factors. Different environments require different physical traits i. e. dark skin in warmer climates and lighter skin in cooler climates. Lanky bodies and rounder bodies because of heat issues. Selective advantage of physical traits, body shape and skin: natural selection colour, mutation, genetic drift.
