ANTH 1001 Lecture 9: : Human Variation
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Subspecies: the only level below a species. Sometimes used to describe populations of the same species who are geographically isolated. Breed: a di erent variants of a species created by arti cial selection. Population: smaller groups within species, temporally and geographically isolated. Variation across human populations is important and it helps understand variation across hominid species. Humans are more similar within themselves, than chimpanzees within themselves. Johann blumenbach: from linnaeus idea, created the classi cations still used today. Eugenics: beliefs and/or practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of human populations, justifying classi cations being right: francis galton: founder of eugenics, cousin of charles darwin. Franz boas: the father of american anthropology, positioned himself against scienti c racism which led to anthropology no longer studying races but culture. Some variation is geographically structured because people tend to choose their mates among those they live close to. The relationship between geographic and genetic proximity re ects gene ow.
